Visual Studio has the ability to build "browse" information. The browse information is useful, but slow, both in extra compile time and search time. It is necessary to know the full name of the identifier being searched for.

The Find Tag dialog is a robust graphical extension to Darren Hiebert's excellent Exuberant Ctags software. It incrementally matches any identifier in the workspace or any external projects or workspaces specified.

The Workspace Whiz! tag system quickly parses every source file in the workspace for tags. Tags, like files, can be incrementally matched. The above example shows how easily CFile::Open may be found. The op part of the Tag to match matches all tags that start with op. The semicolon ; tells the search to begin looking for the tag's parent. The cf matches all parent tags starting with cf. Pressing Enter at this point (or selecting OK) will place the cursor in MFC\SRC\FILECORE.CPP on the correct line.

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