23-02-2022

Faster search in Visual Studio 2022 17.1

In Visual Studio 2022 17.1 they have released a preview feature related to searching your files. If you enable this preview feature a search index of your code contents will be created. See this blog post here (opens new window).

To enable it, make sure that you are on Visual Studio 2022 17.1. Then navigate to tools:

IDE tools

Then search for preview:

Search preview settings

And voila! After a quick restart your search experience should be greatly improved. According to the blog article mentioned earlier:

Speed increase graph

Please try it out! Hopefully this will increase your productivity for those rather large projects. It made my rather large solution search almost instantly everytime!

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