Visual Studio “Find in Files” does not work

Question

Visual Studio (2010, Ultimate) finds nothing when I do Find in Files (Ctrl+Shift+F) in the Entire Solution. However, it finds 2 occurrences when se

Answer 1

Like many other problems where VS simply stops to work properly, deleting the solutions .vs (located in the solution directory) seems to be a 'valid option'.

CAUTION: this will cause you to loose:

• breakpoints
• tabs / open documents
• currently set build configuration
• other non-vital information

... along with a lot of wrongly cached information that VS successfully managed to pile up leading to wrong find results.

I do this regularily when i encounter extreme lags even in debug-startups.