Incremental Search vs Quick Find in Visual Studio

Question

What is the difference between Incremental Search (Ctrl + I) and Quick Find (Ctrl + F) in Visual Studio?

Answer 1

as I said in the comment of mine , that's not the only reason and microsoft would not implement something like this for just being easier to use !

by the way you don't need F3 to navigate between the results in the normal find method . you can do that with hitting enter and hell yea , its easier than Ctrl+I.

You can press Ctrl-I and start to type and all occurrences of what you type get highlight throughout the document, and also added to the find buffer, so F3 then works on the typed text as-well as the normal find method.

Incremental search allows developers to search in document without blocking UI and allow to search as they type.

The very good reason to use Ctrl+I is it find the result as you type the term in the box and you don't need to hit enter or F3 to go to the first result .

How To :

To enable incremental search, just type “Ctrl + i” within the editor. This will subtly change your cursor, and cause your status bar at the bottom left of the IDE to change to “Incremental search: (search term)” – you can then type the search term you are searching for and the editor will search for it from the current source location you are on (no dialog required).