Visual Studio “Find” results in “No files were found to look in. Find stopped progress.”

Question

Sometimes while developing in Visual Studio IDE, when you use \"Find in Files\" dialog to find something, the search fails and you will see the following message in the \"F

Answer 1

There are currently nine bugs on the Connect site related to this and marked as Not reproducible.

I created another one for Visual Studio 2010 SP1: "Find was stopped in progress" while performing search in Visual Studio

Please vote for it if you are unable to perform search.

PS: Microsoft claims that they fixed it in Visual Studio 2012.