Search stops working for “Entire Solution”

Question

Somehow Visual Studio search has stopped working for me. Anytime I search \"Entire Solution\" for some text I get this result:

Find all \"[Whatever I

Answer 1

I'm having a similar situation with Visual Studio Community 2017 and now 2019 (patched up to 16.1.4). In my case it doesn't show any results, it just searches forever without ever finding anything. My solution was to undock the "Find and Replace" dialog and move it to anywhere in a floating position. After undocking it seems to work fine, even after docking it again back to it's original position.