Visual Studio searching is needlessly click intensive. I used Visual Interdev 6 search for years and liked it better than VB6. You can search across files or in the one file. It’s annoying and silly to resize the one search both to suit your application. The other alternative it to dock the find tool, but that always struck me as extemely space wasteful. You only need something that’s 30% of the screen width not 100%. Then I got use to VC++ search and it’s better, though very different. There are two modes, searching across files and searching in the file. They have two different dialog boxes. Searching across files leaves a list of found items in docked window that suddenly appears. But you usually need every bit of width you can get out of it. That was usually the reason for resizing VI6’s search box. Searching in the file jumps to the place where it found your item. Each had it’s own button. You usually know the scope search.
VS03 combines the worst of both methods. There’s one search popup. You use two-three button clicks to switch between local document, entire solution. And the results are always displayed in the docked window. So, now I’m required to keep that POS on my screen. I want my one click back!