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"No files were found to look in"

Today I was really frustrated trying to use the search on Visual Studio, I was searching for something I was sure it was somewhere in the code, but Visual Studio didn't find anything. I searched again and again thinking that maybe I checked some 'don't show any results" checkbox, I even started to believe that that piece of code I was looking for didn't exist, even though I saw it a thousand times, fortunately I decided to read what was written in the search results window:

 

Then I consulted Dr Google who lead me to many forums and blogs and found that the solution to this is to press Ctrl+C and Ctrl+Pause, and when I tried this it worked like charmed.

Still I'm curious to know:

  • What the hell does Ctrl+C and Ctrl+Pause do?
  • Since there is no official information about this well-known old bug, how did the first person discover such a combination?
  • If some developer at microsoft created an event for this combination to solve the problem, why didn't he do what solves the problem right away when the problem arrives?
Posted: Aug 26 2009, 06:54 PM by pablito900 | with 4 comment(s) |
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