1.2.2 comes with these enhancements:

• Search results for .rc, .rc2 and .manifest files are now syntax highlighted.
• Hits in files with very long lines (many thousands of characters) now display properly in the search results.
• The “Share another solution’s index” menu now puts the solution for which an index was created above those that are sharing it (thanks, Dan).
• If you have two Visual Studios running when your trial period expires, and you buy a license key and paste the key into one of them, the other will automatically pick up the new key (thanks, Andrew).
• When an unquoted phrase ends with punctuation then an asterisk, eg. ClassName::*, Source Search no longer searches for a literal asterisk but instead does what you almost certainly meant.  You need to double-quote the phrase to really search for asterisks.  (Thanks, Dan.)
• Fixed a bug whereby Source Search could crash if another process had an exclusive lock on a directory that Source Search wanted to index (thanks, Sebastian).
• Fixed a bug when trying to connect to a deleted index (thanks, Dan).
• Fixed a bug whereby a file could be added to the index twice, and cause a crash when it appeared in the search results (thanks, Dan).
• Multi-megabyte source files no longer take huge amounts of RAM to index (thanks, Roel).
• Source Search now copes better if your PC runs out of disk space.

Download from the usual place.

I’m pleased to announce the release of Entrian Source Search 1.2.1, which includes these fixes and enhancements:

• Files with a .h extension are now syntax highlighted as C++ rather than C.
• Where you’d excluded a directory via More / Options, files from that directory could still be included in the index if they were changed while Visual Studio was running.  They now stay excluded.
• The “Entrian Source Search needs a saved solution” dialog that popped up when you created a new solution has gone away.  It was more annoying than useful.

1.2.1 is available from the Download page.

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.