Feature List

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 that you can start using ABCFind from day one, without any learning curve.
Search expressions can include wildcards or regular expression operators. Regular expression operators can be used to specify that searches only include 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. For a full list of regular expressions and their syntax click here.
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.
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 current project group, all Open Code Windows or all editable code modules (i.e. all those that are checked out of SourceSafe).
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 search for all occurrences of the text and list them in a Search Results window. This window can be used to quickly view a summary of the matches and 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. Any text matches can be replaced with another string. If the text to be replaced is in a code module that is currently checked-in to SourceSafe then ABCFind will automatically check the code out before replacing the text. Click here for more details.
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. Click here for more details.
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. Click here for more details.
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.