How to search for file names in Visual Studio?

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Edward Tanguay picture Edward Tanguay · Oct 2, 2009 · Viewed 155.7k times · Source

In Eclipse you can search for a file in the project by pressing CTRL-SHIFT-R.

Is there a way to do this in Visual Studio?

Answer

Hanna picture Hanna · Sep 10, 2013

Just for anyone else landing on this page from Google or elsewhere, this answer is probably the best answer out of all of them.

To summarize, simply hit:

CTRL + ,

And then start typing the file name.

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