Limit search to specified Folders or File Types in Visual Studio?

Question

Is there a way to limit a search (via the \"Find and Replace\" dialog) in Visual Studio to specified folders or file types?

Answer 1

While the Choose Search Folders works, it could be much better. I would really like to choose folders to exclude as well as include because sometimes folders are nested. You may want a folder but only some of the subfolders.

But by far the worst inconvenience is that it is not stored with the solution. If I go to the trouble of defining a search, and close VS, then reopen, I have to define it all over.