I’ve just released Entrian Source Search 1.5.4, which fixes a bug introduced into 1.5.3 – changing the sort order of the search results was broken.  Duh.  (Thanks, Martin!)

Download from the download page or the gallery.

I’ve just published Entrian Inline Watch 0.8.9, with these enhancements:

• You can now suppress the display of values for a type, by entering a blank format for it in the Object Display settings.
• When an accessor expression like p->get_x() doesn’t render a value, a value is now displayed for p (thanks, Martin).
• Values are now correctly rendered for pointers to pointers (to pointers to pointers to pointers…) (thanks, Martin).
• Fixed an intermittent crash that was due to Visual Studio firing debugger events re-entrantly (yeah, thanks, Visual Studio 🙂 )

You can download the new release from the download page or the gallery.

I’m pleased to announce Entrian Source Search 1.5.3:

• Support for Visual Studio 2015 is now out of Beta status – many thanks to those that tried it out during its Beta period.
• All the Source Search commands now have toolbar icons in the “Customize” dialog of Visual Studio 2015, where previously some of them had blank icons.  Also note that the Source Search commands are under the “Tools” category in VS2015 rather than “Addins”. (Thanks, Hans-Peter).
• Preview Tab support: If you’ve enabled “Allow new files to be opened in the preview tab” then Source Search will now respect that (thanks, Martin and Mike).
• Indexing performance: The initial scan of your solution when you open it in Visual Studio is now more efficient, and has less impact on your PC’s performance (thanks, Frederic).
• High contrast theme support: Source Search now works properly with the Windows High Contrast theme (thanks, Martin).
• The Autosuggest dropdown no longer stops working after you reload a solution without closing Visual Studio (thanks, Daniel).
• Bugfix to shared indexes: when you have two instances of Visual Studio open, each with a different solution open but sharing the same Source Search index, changing the options in one instance now also applies your changes to the second (thanks, Chris).
• When you restart Visual Studio, the Source Search tool window reappears correctly (thanks, Huy).
• It’s no longer possible to accidentally remove all inclusion patterns from your index settings, and therefore have an index with no files in it (thanks, Mark).

Entrian Source Search is a free upgrade to all licensed users, and a 30-individual-day trial for everyone else.  You can download it from the download page.

PS. Have you seen Entrian’s new product, Inline Watch? It displays the values of variables inline in your source code, updated live as you step through your code.  If you’ve ever used the Visual Studio debugger, I think you’ll like it:

You can read all about in on the Inline Watch homepage.  I’d love to hear your opinion!

I’m really excited to announce a new product from Entrian Solutions: Entrian Inline Watch.

It displays the values of variables inline in your source code, updated live as you step through your code:

You can see the live values right there in the source, rather than having to hover over them with the mouse, or find them in the Watch windows.

As soon as you land in a function, or at a breakpoint, you can see the values of your function parameters and variables instantly.

It makes debugging almost pleasant.  You and your team need it.  🙂

Entrian Inline Watch works with Visual Studio 2010, 2012, 2013 or 2015; any edition except Express.

It works with both Managed and Native debugging; in C++, C#, and VB.

It’s free during the Beta period, with builds timing out after a few weeks.  Once it’s out of Beta it will cost $29 per developer, or $24 with a volume discount.

Download it from the download page, read the fine manual and the FAQ, and let me know what you think!  (And bear in mind it’s in Beta, and therefore does not carry a no-weirdness guarantee.)

Entrian Source Search now works with Visual Studio 2015 (as well as remaining compatible with all versions back to 2005).

This is a Beta release – it’s been tested by several people (thanks, everyone!) and proved stable, but until it’s had a wider audience, it’ll keep the Beta label.

You can download 1.5.2 Beta from the Source Search download page, and please let me know if you find any problems (or, even better, if you don’t!)

(Entrian Attach will also be gaining support for Visual Studio 2015 real soon now; certainly before the RTM release of VS2015 on July 20th.)

I’m very pleased to announce the release of Entrian Source Search 1.4.21, which includes these bugfixes:

• A file: filter no longer fails when you have the Case sensitive option checked.  Thanks, Martin.
• Hitting Ctrl+= with the cursor at the beginning of a collapsed #region no longer tries to search for the entire text of the region (!)  Thanks, Robert.
• The widths of the columns in the results list are now remembered between sessions.  Thanks, Fletcher.
• Modal dialogs are now parented properly to Visual Studio when it isn’t in the foreground when the dialog appears.  Thanks, Ace.
• When you use the Shift+Alt+F shortcut to start a file: search, the file: filter would occasionally be highlighted, so typing the filename would overwrite it (duh).  That’s now fixed.
• Version 1.4.20 introduced a dependency on a CRT DLL that almost all development PCs already have, but 1.4.21 packages it for those that haven’t (which includes clean Windows 7 machines with Visual Studio 2010 installed).  Thanks, Laurent.
• The keyboard shortcuts for toggling the various options from the Search box, like Alt+F to toggle Fuzzy Search, now use Shift+Alt rather than just Alt. If you’re in the habit of using Alt+F to show the File menu, and you happen to have your focus in the Search box at the time, you no longer accidentally kick off a potentially slow Fuzzy Search.  (In fact, the shortcut for Fuzzy Search is now Shift+Alt+Z because Shift+Alt+F starts a file: search.)  Thanks, Jason.

Entrian Source Search 1.4.21 is available from the Download page as a free upgrade for licensed users and as a 30-individual-day trial for everyone else.

I’ve just released Entrian Source Search 1.4.20, which fixes a memory leak that could eventually lead to an OutOfMemoryException when indexing a large solution.

1.4.20 is a recommended upgrade for anyone using 1.4.18 or greater.  Please download it from the usual place.

As always, there’s a 30-individual-day trial for new users, and the upgrade is free for existing users.

You can download this latest release from the Download page.

I’m pleased to announce Entrian Source Search 1.4.18, which includes the following features and fixes:

• Never gets in the way: Source Search now uses Opportunistic Locks to ensure that it can never cause file conflicts.  If it’s in the middle of indexing a file and another process tries to open that file, it will back off and try again later, guaranteeing the other process access to the file regardless of the sharing modes involved.  (Source Search has always opened files with maximum sharing, but this goes a step further.)
• Syntax highlighting bugfix: When a #region line contained an apostrophe (#region Here's my lovely region) the syntax highlighting no longer gets confused.

1.4.18 is available from the Download page as a free upgrade for licensed users and as a 30-individual-day trial for everyone else.

I’m pleased to announce Entrian Source Search 1.4.17, which includes the following features and fixes:

• Save keystrokes: When you search for files using a file: / dir: / ext: / age: filter with no other search terms and there’s only one match, it will be opened in the editor automatically.  That’s 100% less wear and tear on your Down and Enter keys!  Thanks, Chris.
  
• Bugfix for very large files: Source files larger than 4MB are now always completely indexed.  Thanks, Kyle.
• Bogus error removal: Sometimes the Visual Studio editor will raise a “Catastrophic failure” exception when showing a hit, even though the operation has worked perfectly.  Rather than diligently passing these errors on, Source Search now ignores them.  Thanks, Steve.

As always, the release is available from the Source Search Download page as a free upgrade for licensed users and as a 30-individual-day trial for everyone else.