SonicFileFinder is a free add-in for Visual Studio that allows a fast and convenient search for any file within every Project of the loaded Solution by entering the complete filename or just a part of it. The found file(s) can either be edited with a single keystroke or a Windows Explorer / CommandLine prompt can be opened at the file's location.

What's new?

Version 2.2 is a compatibility release for Visual Studio 2010.

Note: SonicFileFinder requires .NET Framework 3.5 to run!

• ADDED: Support for Visual Studio 2010.

Download it on the SonicFileFinder website.

SonicFileFinder is a free add-in for Visual Studio that allows a fast and convenient search for any file within every Project of the loaded Solution by entering the complete filename or just a part of it. The found file(s) can either be edited with a single keystroke or a Windows Explorer / CommandLine prompt can be opened at the file's location.

What's new?

Version 2.1 is a small add-on release to 2.0.

Note: SonicFileFinder now requires .NET Framework 3.5 to run!

• ADDED: Support for F# project types. (This should also fix some problems with other strange project types.) Sadly the F# project doesn't expose file events, like "added" or "removed". Thus SonicFileFinder can see removed or added files only after reloading the solution.
• CHANGED: Removed the Live Preview feature.
• CHANGED: Split the configuration dialog into "Appearance" und "Features".
• FIXED: Opening a Master Page in a standard ASP.NET Web Project now opens the Master Page not the the code behind file.

Download it on the SonicFileFinder website.

Since Christmas is around the corner, I would like to point your eyes to my amazon wish lists in the US, UK and Germany. If you like and use SonicFileFinder, why not make a small donation? Those of you, who would like to spend a special amount, could send an amazon Gift Card (US, UK, Germany). Thank you!

SonicFileFinder is a free add-in for Visual Studio that allows a fast and convenient search for any file within every Project of the loaded Solution by entering the complete filename or just a part of it. The found file(s) can either be edited with a single keystroke or a Windows Explorer / CommandLine prompt can be opened at the file's location.

What's new?

Version 2.0 is quite a big feature release. Besides all the new features, the performance has been increased drastically.

Note: SonicFileFinder now requires .NET Framework 3.5 to run!

• ADDED: In Visual Studio 2008 the keyboard shortcut, for starting the search with SonicFileFinder, will now work in the source code view of the HTML editor.
• ADDED: Unwanted files can now be excluded from the search using the same search language in the new exclusion field.
• ADDED: The order, in which the columns of SonicFileFinder are sorted, is now being displayed underneath the result list.
• ADDED: The font size used in SonicFileFinder can now be adjusted using the configuration dialog or hotkeys.
• ADDED: Files using a designer, like WinForms, will now be displayed in design view when opening them with SonicFileFinder. (Code view can be forced using the context menu.) Sadly this won't work for C++ projects and there seems to be no way to fix this.
• ADDED: The number of found files is now displayed in the title of the popup/tool window.
• ADDED: The history of files opened/explored with SonicFileFinder can now be saved between sessions.
• ADDED: SonicFileFinder will now detect changes (file added/renamed/removed) in Visual Studio 2008 Website projects.
• CHANGED: Significantly improved performance while searching.
• FIXED: The sorting of the columns in the result list is now saved between sessions.
• FIXED: The crashing of SonicFileFinder, which should have been fixed in Version 1.9.1, reappeared in some special cases and should have been fixed now.

Download it on the SonicFileFinder website.

Update: If you get the following error message, please download SonicFileFinder again.

Don’t forget: If you like SonicFileFinder, you might want to take a look at my amazon wishlists (US, UK, Germany).

I was very delighted this morning seeing that SonicFileFinder got "morning brewed" by Chris Alcock! This is so awesome, thank you Chris!

After the Daily Grind was gone, Chris jumped in and continued the tradition. I really enjoy reading his blog and I already infected some of my colleagues. If you don't know the "Morning Brew" yet, I strongly advise to get there. Chris blogs about interesting finds regarding .NET with a lot of "must reads" in it.

SonicFileFinder is a free add-in for Visual Studio that allows a fast and convenient search for any file within every Project of the loaded Solution by entering the complete filename or just a part of it. The found file(s) can either be edited with a single keystroke or a Windows Explorer / CommandLine prompt can be opened at the file's location.

What's new?

Version 1.9.1 is a bugfix release due to changes in Visual Studio 2008 automation model. Big thanks to Jacobo Amselem for reporting the bug and testing the beta version!

• FIXED: SonicFileFinder sometimes crashed Visual Studio or simply closed itself without a warning, when using some of the new projects types in Visual Studio 2008. This problem occurred for example using the new database project types in Visual Studio Team System 2008.

Download it on the SonicFileFinder website.

SonicFileFinder is a free add-in for Visual Studio that allows a fast and convenient search for any file within every Project of the loaded Solution by entering the complete filename or just a part of it. The found file(s) can either be edited with a single keystroke or a Windows Explorer / CommandLine prompt can be opened at the file's location.

What's new?

Version 1.9 is a feature/bugfix release, where support for searching in folder names has been added and two bugs causing Visual Studio to crash have been fixed.

• ADDED: Support for searching for folder names in the same way as for file names. Just add a "\" before typing the folder name.
• FIXED: SonicFileFinder doesn't crash Visual Studio anymore, when opening C++ projects.
• FIXED: SonicFileFinder doesn't crash Visual Studio anymore, when debugging websites.

Download it on the SonicFileFinder website.

SonicFileFinder is a free add-in for Visual Studio that allows a fast and convenient search for any file within every Project of the loaded Solution by entering the complete filename or just a part of it. The found file(s) can either be edited with a single keystroke or a Windows Explorer / CommandLine prompt can be opened at the file's location.

What's new?

Version 1.8.6 is small release adding support for Ruby and other custom projects. It also fixes a bug concerning Visual Studio 2008.

• ADDED: Support for Ruby projects (e.g. Ruby in Steel). This should work for other custom project types as well.
• CHANGED: The color of a selected row in the result window now matches the systems highlight color.
• FIXED: Tab icon handling in ToolWindow mode. This fixes some issues when using Visual Studio 2008 Beta2.

Download it on the SonicFileFinder website.

SonicFileFinder is a free add-in for Visual Studio that allows a fast and convenient search for any file within every Project of the loaded Solution by entering the complete filename or just a part of it. The found file(s) can either be edited with a single keystroke or a Windows Explorer / CommandLine prompt can be opened at the file's location.

What's new?

Version 1.8.5 contains some new features/bugfixes, but mainly support for Visual Studio 2008.

• ADDED: Multiple search terms can now be entered separated by SPACE for performing an AND search.
• ADDED: Mousewheel support for the result list.
• ADDED: 'Open' button in the SonicFileFinder dialog for opening the selected files.
• ADDED: The context menu on the result list now has 'Open', 'Explore' and 'Command Line' entries.
• CHANGED: The entered search string is no longer reset, when SonicFileFinder is called.
• FIXED: The 'No' button is now default, when deleting files.
• FIXED: When calling the context menu by rightclicking on the result list, the file under the mouse cursor gets selected.
• FIXED: Some minor bugfixes in the search language.

Download it on the SonicFileFinder website.

Now this is a great way for closing the weekend:

Since the first release of SonicFileFinder on the 17th of September 2006 it has been downloaded 1000 times!

I thank you all for sending me feature requests, bug reports, compliments, things from my amazon wishlist and of course for downloading SonicFileFinder!

Here's to the next 1000 downloads! ;-)

Regards
Jens

P.S: No, this isn't an April fool's joke :P

SonicFileFinder is a free add-in for Visual Studio 2005 that allows a fast and convenient search for any file within every Project of the loaded Solution by entering the complete filename or just a part of it. The found file(s) can either be edited with a single keystroke or a Windows Explorer / CommandLine prompt can be opened at the file's location.

Welcome to the SonicFileFinder releasethon: 3 releases in 3 days! Roland tested version 1.8.1 today, found some bugs and proposed the search by initials + wildcards feature. What can I say: Here we go again...

What's new?

Version 1.8.2 is a small bugfix/feature release of SonicFileFinder.

• ADDED: Search by intials can now be used in conjunction with wildcards. Example: There are two files MyFirstClass.cpp and MyFirstClass.cs. Searching for MFC would match both files, but searching for MFC*p would only match MyFirstClass.cpp.
• CHANGED: Selected files in the SonicFileFinder result list can now only be deleted using the context menu. The Del-Key works now as expected in the search box.
• FIXED: Unexpected behavior when using wildcards: a* found all files starting with a, but a*.cs found all files ending with .cs and contaning a

Download it on the SonicFileFinder website.

SonicFileFinder is a free add-in for Visual Studio 2005 that allows a fast and convenient search for any file within every Project of the loaded Solution by entering the complete filename or just a part of it. The found file(s) can either be edited with a single keystroke or a Windows Explorer / CommandLine prompt can be opened at the file's location.

After releasing Version 1.8 yesterday, I got an e-mail from Marc Templin. He detected two annoying bugs I did not recognize. Thanks Marc for your great feedback!

What's new?

Version 1.8.1 is a small bugfix release of SonicFileFinder.

• FIXED: When launching a file into the editor in popup window mode, the editor didn't get the focus.
• FIXED: When launching a file into the editor in tool window mode, a new line was added to the file.

Download it on the SonicFileFinder website.

SonicFileFinder is a free add-in for Visual Studio 2005 that allows a fast and convenient search for any file within every Project of the loaded Solution by entering the complete filename or just a part of it. The found file(s) can either be edited with a single keystroke or a Windows Explorer / CommandLine prompt can be opened at the file's location.

Finally a bunch of new features found their way into SonicFileFinder after circling around in my head for some time now. I hope you'll enjoy using this release as much as I enjoyed shaping it.

What's new?

Version 1.8 is a quite large feature release of SonicFileFinder. Beside a bunch of new features, SonicFileFinder has now full Vista compatibility.

• ADDED: Context menu on the result list for deleting selected files or showing the Standard File Properties dialog.
• ADDED: The Windows Standard File Properties dialog can now be shown for a selected file using Alt+Enter or the context menu.
• ADDED: A CommandLine can now be opened at the file's location - similar to the Explore feature - by pressing either the new CommandLine button or by pressing Ctrl+Shift+E.
• ADDED: The search box of SonicFileFinder will now be preset with the current editor selection. (You can disable that feature using the configuration dialog.)
• ADDED: The columns of the result list can now be sorted in either direction using Ctrl+<column number>.
• ADDED: Page Up/Down buttons can now be used to navigate the result list.
• ADDED: When opening a Windows Explorer using the Explore feature, the file to explore is now selected in Windows Explorer.
• ADDED: The focus now always stays on the search box, even while navigating through the result list.
• ADDED: A sophisticated logging mechanism has been implemented using SmartInspect from GurockSoftware.
• ADDED: Better support for multi-monitor setups in Popup mode.
• ADDED: Search by initials now supports partial matches.
• ADDED: Selected files in the SonicFileFinder result list can now be deleted using the context menu or the Del-Key. (Of course not without asking your permission ;)
• FIXED: When using search by initials, only the files matching the uppercase letters are shown.
• FIXED: The match percentage is calculated correctly, when using search by initials.
• FIXED: SonicFileFinder is now disabled, when using Visual Studio in CommandLine (aka non-interactive) mode. This caused SonicFileFinder to crash while trying to remove the menu, which obviously didn't work.

Download it on the SonicFileFinder website.

SonicFileFinder is a free add-in for Visual Studio 2005 that allows a fast and convenient search for any file within every Project of the loaded Solution by entering the complete filename or just a part of it. The found file(s) can either be edited with a single keystroke or a Windows Explorer can be opened at the file's location.

It's been a while since the last release of SonicFileFinder. Besides much other work, I have been playing around with Vista and been to the TechEd Developers conference in Barcelona. (Check out the gallery for some pictures, if you like.) Also, I changed my webspace provider. This site is now hosted by hostmonster.com. They are a bit slower, but hopefully more stable. Anyway, I hope you will enjoy the new SonicFileFinder release. There's only a small change, but aint it the small things that matter? ;)

I wish you all a great Christmas and a Happy New Year, if we don't see each other before!

What's new?

This is just a small maintenance release. John v. Barone asked me, if I could implement support for the Database Project. Unfortunately there is no chance to do that, because this project type does not implement the Visual Studio Automation Model. Sorry for that!

• ADDED: Support for all project types which are using the Visual Studio Automation Model. Only C#, VB, Web and C++ Projects were supported before.

Download it on the SonicFileFinder website.

A few weeks ago Sonu Kapoor from DotNetSlackers.com asked me to write an article about SonicFileFinder (a Visual Studio 2005 add-in I wrote). I finally found some time to get it done last weekend and it's online now.

The article is a short introduction about the idea and the main features of SonicFileFinder.

This is big day in the history of the SonicFileFinder development. I received the first donation from a colleague of mine. :-D

He handed me three cans of a nice bio-parfait I ate from time to time, but it wasn't available at my local market anymore. Gerhard found them in a market nearby his home town and here they are:

Thank you Gerhard, I really appreciate this!

If you'd like to make a donation yourself and don't know what food to buy, you may also pick some non-food stuff from my amazon wishlist...

P.S: No, I don't want to hear any jokes about dog-food(ing) ;-)