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Visual Studio Command Prompt Here and Search Unknown File Extensions

Posted 2005-07-15 07:21 PM in ASP.NET | Web Services | Bugs | Tools.

I found myself searching my own blog for these three things today to set up another machine for development. Here they are so *I* can find them.

INF: Visual Studio 2003 "Command Prompt Here" (save, then right click and "install")
INF: Visual Studio 2005 "Command Prompt Here" (save, then right click and "install")
Registry: Make Built-in Windows Search find text in text files with Unknown Extensions (like freakin' every file)
INF: Clean Sources - Right click in Explorer and delete all BIN, RELEASE, OBJ, DEBUG folders

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Monday, July 18, 2005 4:22:01 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)

Just wanted to let you know there is a much better search tool than the one built into windows. It will search through all files for text, and will allow you to use RegEx too!
Its called AgentRansack its free and you might just end up adding it to your 'tools' list!

Brian

Monday, July 18, 2005 7:00:25 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)

Here's the link: http://www.mythicsoft.com/agentransack/

John

Thursday, July 21, 2005 7:46:06 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)

Find text in text files??? A registry change? I'll be ... I wrote a patware to do the search! Well, at least mine can do regex searches !

Hey, do you know what's the registry key to modify to get the "file search" automatically instead of the "what do you want to search for" ?

Pat

Patrice Calve

Saturday, January 14, 2006 1:56:29 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)

I wasn't getting an "Install" option in Explorer. I spent some time googling to figure out the following one-line batch file.

%SystemRoot%\System32\rundll32.exe setupapi,InstallHinfSection DefaultInstall 132 %~f1