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Hovering your mouse on a returned search result will pop up a preview screen of the code. To navigate to a search result, press the Enter key on a reference or double-click it.
Find Files Faster
When compared to Visual Studio 2019, the Find in Files feature in Visual Studio 2022 is more than 2x faster for 95% of searches. Starting in Visual Studio 2022 17.1 Preview 3, Microsoft introduced indexed Find in Files. This means that according to benchmarks provided by Microsoft, all matches to a search query are returned in just over one second, making the search experience feel instantaneous.
Reference Highlighting
Visual Studio makes it easy to see selected items in the code editor. If you click a variable, for example, you will see all the occurrences of that variable highlighted in the code editor as seen in Figure 1-26.
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Figure 1-26. Default reference highlighting
But did you know that you can change the color of the highlight from the Options in Visual Studio? Go to Tools Options Environment Fonts and Colors Highlighted Reference as seen in Figure 1-27.
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Figure 1-27. Change the Highlighted Reference color
Change the color to yellow and click OK. All the references to the variable you just selected will now be highlighted in yellow.
Go ToCommands
I’ll admit that these are probably the commands that I use the least in Visual Studio. All with the exception of Ctrl+G. Go ahead and open Visual Studio, and press Ctrl+G.
Figure 1-28. Go To Line
As can be seen in Figure 1-28, a window pops up that allows you to jump to a specific line of code. This is incredibly useful when trying to explain something to another developer not sitting in the same room as you.
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While pressing Ctrl+1 might seem slightly finicky, you soon get used to it, and the commands start to feel more natural. Ctrl+Shift+Backspace is another command that I find very useful. This is especially true when editing large code files.
Go ToDefinition
Go To Definition allows you to jump to the definition of the selected element. Go to the example project for this chapter, and find the click event for the Track button.
Just a reminder that the code for this book can be downloaded from GitHub at the following URL: github.com/apress/getting-started-vs2022.
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