I’m pleased to announce Entrian Source Search version 1.2, with the following fixes:

• Right-clicking on messages like ‘No hits’ no longer causes a crash (thanks, Adam).
• Versions prior to 1.2 could set up the keyboard shortcuts incorrectly; 1.2 fixes the problem and will also repair broken keyboard shortcuts created by prior versions (thanks, Roel).
• It no longer optimises the index as often as it used to.
• For some users, prior versions wouldn’t remember the docking state of the tool window.  Now fixed (thanks, Ivan).

Download from the usual place.

The first non-Beta release of Entrian Source Search!

I’d like to thank all our Beta testers, especially Andrew, Adam, Dan and Ivan, for all the great feedback they’ve provided during the Beta program.  The software wouldn’t be anywhere near as robust, flexible and easy to use as it is now if it weren’t for you guys.

1.1.2 has only a couple of fixes relative to 0.98.3:

• Fixed a crash in the syntax coloring code for ASP files (thanks, Ivan).
• The About dialog now adjusts its layout sensibly when you resize it.

And most importantly:

• It no longer says Beta! 🙂

Download from the usual place.

0.98.3 is released:

• Allow pathname exclusions as well as filenames (thanks, Ivan).
• Fixed a once-in-a-blue-moon crash caused by a race condition in the indexer (thanks, Adam).
• Where a hit is on the last line of a file, eliminated the appearance of a bogus duplicate word in the results list (thanks, Andrew).

Download from the usual place.

Hot on the heels of 0.98 comes a bugfix release, 0.98.2, that fixes a crash bug in the results display if you’re using a Visual Studio colour scheme with highly saturated source code background colors.

Entrian Source Search 0.98 Beta is out, with a slew of ergonomic improvements and a couple of crash fixes:

•  Fixed a crash when starting up two instances of Visual Studio at once (thanks, Andrew).
• Allow quote marks within quoted phrases (thanks, Ivan):

  

• Solutions that share an index are now grouped together in the Share menu (thanks, Dan):

  

• In the Hints menu, make it clear that filtering is by file, not line (thanks, Dan).
• Fixed a startup crash on Japanese Windows.
• Search phrases with embedded quotes, eg. id=”mybutton” now work properly (thanks, Dan).

(Note: This post is from September 2008.  Apologies to anyone seeing this via RSS as a new post in the “30days” feed from FeedBurner – I think FeedBurner has gone slightly mad.)

I’m happy to announce the release of Entrian Source Search 0.97 Beta, with a very cool enhancement: you can now use a wildcard asterisk anywhere in a word (where previously you could only use them at the end of a word).  Here’s a search for *query*:

You can use as many asterisks as you like within a word, so *Query*T* will match ESSQueryPartType.  Thanks to Dan for the impetus for me to get on and implement this!

Entrian Source Search 0.96 Beta has just been released:

• The search results now use the same color scheme as Visual Studio, so if you code in green-on-black, your search results will match (thanks, Ivan):

  

• Added *.frm, *.bas and *.cls to the list of supported files (thanks, ‘Mister’ from BoS).
• Added a scrollbar to the Exclusion Patterns list.
• Added enc_temp_folder to the default exclusions.
• Better crash reporting (thanks, Andrew).

I’m happy to announce the release of the next Beta version of Entrian Source Search, 0.95.  In this release you’ll find these fixes and enhancements:

• Fixed a crash when indexing source files under German Windows (thanks, Sebastian).
• The size and position of tooltips is now correct under Windows Vista.
• Fixed the appearance of the ‘Dock me’ hint on systems using large fonts (thanks, Andrew).
• The default key bindings now include AltGr as well as Alt as the modifier, for one-handed operation on keyboards with AltGr keys (thanks, Andrew).
• Ensured that all MessageBoxes have suitable icons.
• Fixed a bug where the tooltips could flicker when the mouse cursor was over them.

As always, you can download the addin here.

Entrian Source Search 0.94 Beta is out, with a pile of enhancements and fixes:

• Added a Right-click menu, with “Copy pathame to clipboard” etc. (thanks, Adam):

  

• Better crash reporting.
•  Made the Status tooltip disappear when indexing finishes.
•  Added “More / Website” and added a link to the website to the About box.
• Added an initial ‘Dock me’ hint when the tool window starts up floating (thanks, Andrew).

I’m very pleased to announce the first public Beta release of Entrian Source Search.  Entrian Source Search is a Visual Studio Addin that indexes your source code and gives you instant search results, even across millions of lines of code.  The key features are:

• Seamless integration with Visual Studio 2005/2008.
• Syntax-coloured search results – so much easier to read than Find In Files!
• Searches everything: code, comments, strings, resources, documentation, changelogs, everything.
• You can filter the results by filename, directory, file extension or text.
• Autocomplete and configurable keyboard shortcuts make everything really quick to use.

I’ve been using it myself for months, and it’s been worth its weight in gold.  One of the projects I work on has many millions of lines of code, and searching it was a royal pain.  But Source Search has also been really valuable for small projects too, which came as a bit of a surprise – the syntax coloured results and keyboard shortcuts make it so much more pleasant and productive to use than Find In Files.

I’ve also found myself using it in preference to some of Visual Studio’s other tools, like “Find All References”.  The fact that it searches in comments, ChangeLogs, and so on gives you a much better picture of what you’re searching for.

So, please download the free trial and tell me what you think!