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.

I’m pleased to announce Entrian Source Search 1.4.15, with these features and fixes:

• F# support:  Hello F# developers!  For those who are new to Entrian Source Search, it’s a Visual Studio addin that builds a full-text index of your source code, giving you instant, syntax-highlighted search results.  It supports fuzzy search, proximity (loose) search, autocomplete, age filtering and much more:
   

  Note for existing users: if you already have F# code in your index, you’ll need to force a refresh to get it highlighted. Thanks, Jack and Vasily.

• Performance boosts for indexing.  Overall indexing performance is up by about 25%, and by more like 50% for large files.
• New hotkey Shift+Alt+Num * performs a substring search by taking the word under the cursor and adding leading and trailing asterisks, like *this*.  Thanks, Chris.
• Corrupt file system events from network file servers no longer cause files to transiently disappear from the index.  Thanks, Jean-Michel.
• License names containing ampersands are now displayed properly in the License Key dialog.

You can download this latest release from the Download page.

Update (1.4.16): F# double-backtick identifiers ``like this`` are now respected – they are syntax-highlighted properly, and if you hit Alt+= on one of them then Source Search will search for the whole identifier.  Thanks again, Vasily.

Question for you F# guys: What else can I do to make Entrian Source Search an excellent tool for F# development?  I have very little experience with F#, so I’m relying on you to give me ideas.  🙂

I’m pleased to announce Entrian Source Search 1.4.14, which fixes a memory leak that could (eventually) cause an OutOfMemoryException.

The upgrade is free to existing users and available as a free trial for everyone else.  Download it here.

I’m delighted to announce Entrian Source Search 1.4.13, with two new features:

• Automatic phrase search.  You’re no longer required to use double quotes to search for phrases – by checking the new “Phrase Search” option on the toolbar, a search for One Two (without quotes) will search for the phrase One Two rather than searching for all the Ones and all the Twos:
  
  Thanks, Ondřej, Metodi, Matthew and others.
• Control over the default Looseness of a Loose search.  Previously, checking the Loose Phrases button would search for matches within ten tokens of each other – you can now control that via More / Options. (And you can still control it per-search using a query like loose50:”One Two”.)  Thanks, Ondřej.

Automatic phrase search is now the default for new installations, but upgrading an existing installation won’t enable it.

You can download this latest release from the Download page.

I’m pleased to announce Entrian Attach 1.2.2, which can now attach to running processes according to their window title:

Thanks for the suggestion, Adam!

This release also fixes two bugs:

• Attach could crash for processes with long command lines.
• When using Attach Now where there are multiple candidate processes but only some of them match your condition, Attach would correctly attach to the matching processes but then tell you that there were no matching processes (duh).

Download from the usual place.

(This post is also available in Polish.)

I’ve just released Entrian Attach 1.2, which supports Visual Studio 2013.  Download from the usual place.

I’ve just released Entrian Source Search 1.4.12, which includes support for Visual Studio 2013.  It also fixes these bugs:

• Hitting the Del key to delete a result from a filter-only search (eg. ext:cpp) no longer crashes.  Thanks, Robert.
• Fixed a crash on PCs with a broken icon associated with a file type that appears in the search results.  Thanks, Yanick.

As always, the upgrade is free to existing users and available as a free trial for everyone else.  Get it from the download page.

(A Visual Studio 2013 update for Entrian Attach will be available in the next day or two.)

I’m happy to announce Entrian Source Search 1.4.11, and the fact that Source Search is now published in the Visual Studio Gallery.  If any of the Entrian faithful feel the need to enter a glowing review, I won’t stand in your way. 🙂

You can find the Source Search page here. (And while you’re there, don’t forget to check out Entrian Attach, our shiny new product!)

Source Search 1.4.11 also brings a cool new feature and a couple of bugfixes:

• You can now delete results from the results list using the Delete key (thanks for the suggestion, Steve!) If some of the results aren’t relevant, just delete them – they only disappear from the results list, without affecting your filters or your index. In the results list:
  • Delete removes the highlighted result from the list.
  • Ctrl+Delete removes all the results from the highlighted results’s file.
  • Shift+Ctrl+Delete removes all the results from the highlighted results’s folder.
• Fixed a crash when a wildcard search with multiple tokens, eg. render*( finds no matches. Thanks, Luke and Marc.
• Fixed a bogus error message when you try to show a result but you’ve modified the source code such that the result is now off the end of the file. Thanks, Alexandre.

I’m excited to announce Entrian’s new product: Entrian Attach!

Entrian Attach automatically attaches the Visual Studio debugger  to processes the moment they start, however they’re started.

Use it to debug services, web servers, code in DllMain, unit tests, setup custom actions, whatever you like.  It works for both native and managed code.

The debugger attaches as the process is created, not on a polling timer, so you get control right from the very first instruction.

You can use it to debug into child processes as well, and control whether to attach only to immediate children or to grandchild processes.

Entrian Attach knows about web servers, and you can configure it to attach to IIS or IIS Express only for certain web sites or application pools.

It supports conditional attachment for any process, according to the process’s user and/or command line.

And finally it has an “Attach Now” command to attach directly to interesting running processes, to save you digging around in Visual Studio’s Attach to Process dialog.

And finally finally, it comes with a built-in five-minute tutorial to walk you through all the features.

Download it today and give it a spin!  The Beta is free but time-limited.  The final version will cost $29 per developer.