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

I can reproduce your issue.

There are some steps as following below you can try:

1. Check the setting Find and Replace (menu Tools → Environment → Find and Replace).

2. Open "Developer Command Prompt for VS2013" and paste “devenv.exe /resetsettings”

3. Use the Visual Studio Setup Wizard (via Control Panel) to repair Visual Studio. You also can read the reference about Find in Files:

   http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dechx2tz.aspx