Almost all Visual Studio commands can be run via the command line (scope willing).  Check out running the find command via the command line (or the Ctrl+/ window – edit.gotocommandline).

Additional Command Line options:

Edit.Find /options – Shows which options are currently set

Edit.Find /reset – clears all options

Some examples:

Edit.Find MainForm /case / proc (Quick Find, match case, in current procedure – <block>)

Edit.Find MainForm /o /m /u /h /l (Quick Find, open documents, match whole word, mark matches, search up, search hidden)

Edit.Replace /doc /all (Quick Replace, replace all, current document)

Edit.FindInFiles btnCancel /lookin:"c:\users\saraf\documents\visual studio 2008\projects\vb samples" /ext:*.vb /text2  (Find In Files, look in the VB Samples folder with files of .vb extension, and show results in Find Results 2 Window)

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