I am using Visual Studio for many years, but I have to admit this came as a total surprise: the Find combo box in Visual Studio is more than just what the name says.
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Besides searching for files, you can use it for opening files, creating new files, setting breakpoints (in a smart way), going to a line, getting help, editing lines, and many, many others. You can do all these by typing ‘>’ followed by a command name and a space and then additional values.
For instance, if you want a quick finding of files, you can type >of filename and it will show in the combo all the files that match the typed string.

Another example: if you want to jump to line 250 in the currently opened file type >GotoLn 250.
This blog post describes several other commands such as opening and creating files and setting breakpoints. The list of all available commands is available in MSDN.









