Visual Basic has always lacked a powerful find and replace tool, until now!

ABCFind provides many powerful features that increase Visual Basic development productivity.

Below is a summary of its many features.

• Integrates into the Visual Basic IDE. ABCFind completely replaces the Find and Replace dialog boxes that are provided by the standard Visual Basic IDE. It is backward compatible with these dialog boxes - so you can get the benefits of using ABCFind right from the very first time you use it.
  
  
• Search expressions can include wildcards or regular expression operators. Regular expression operators can be used to specify that you only search text at the beginning of lines, end of lines, only within string literals, only text within declaration lines or only within variable/procedure declaration names. 
  
  
• Using an 'Or' operator within search strings allows you to specify more than one expression to search for. Multiple searches can be done with just one click of a button.
  
  

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  Increased scope of searches. The standard Visual Basic find and replace functionality only allows you to search within the current code module, the current project, the current procedure of the current selection. ABCFind extends these scopes so you can now search
  • All projects in the project group.
  • All code modules that are currently open.
  • All editable/checked-out modules in the project group.
    
    
• Ignore commented code. ABCFind can ignore all text contained in comments. You no longer have to waste time looking at commented-out code.
  
  
• Find All. As well as a Find and Find Next button, ABCFind provides a Find All button that will allow you to search for all occurences of your text and list them in te Search Results window.
  
  
• Search Results List. This window shows a list of all your found matches.  Use it to quickly view a summary of the searches and to navigate to each one.
  
  
• SourceSafe searches. Instead of searching the latest version of code stored by the Visual Basic IDE, ABCFind can search previous versions of this code in the associated SourceSafe database.
  
  
• Replace Text.  Use ABCFind to replace matching text with another text string.
  
  
• Find In Files. Your search is not just limited to files loaded in the Visual Basic IDE. ABCFind can search for files held on a disk. ABCFind can even perform a find and replace on these files.
  
  
• Find In SourceSafe. In a similar way to Find In Files, ABCFind can search for files held in a SourceSafe database regardless of whether those files are loaded into the Visual Basic IDE.
  
  
• Standalone Application. The power of ABCFind is further enhanced by its ability to run as a standalone application rather than integrated into the Visual Basic IDE. In this way, you can search for text in Visual Basic Projects contained in any hard-disk in your network. You can even search for matches in projects held within a SourceSafe repository, including the version history.