VS2012 change the Find Dialog (CRL+F) to the old (and working) find dialog

Question

The "new and improved" VS 2012 Find And Replace Dialog, is frustrating me almost every time i have to use it (like every 30 seconds) Is there way to make the find and replace window in VS 2012 act like it did in VS 2010?

I would like a non-docked, floating, DIALOG -- not the sticky auto-doc thing they have in VS 2012 (2013) now. It would be nice to have a underlined-letter-hotkeys to navigate the dialog without a mouse, and the window to do not lose focus after search.

Answer 1

The way to make this is to use the FindInFiles dialog. This can be done by learning to use "Ctl + Shift + F" instead of "Ctl + F" (bad), or simply change the shortcuts to use the old Find-In-Files dialog instead the new "thing" like this:

• Tools, Options, Environment, Keyboard

• In 'show commands containg:' enter this: FIND

  • Scroll down to Edit.Find
  • Remove any existing shortcut (I didn't bother)
  • Click into 'press shortcut keys' and press CTRL F
  • Click Assign
  • Scroll down to Edit.FindinFiles
  • Remove any existing shortcut (I didn't bother)
  • Click into 'press shortcut keys' and press CTRL SHIFT F
  • Click Assign

Hope that this will save you lot of furstration, like it was for me.