I'm very fan of the famous and old tool NotePad++. It is a powerful tool, simple and free with a lot of feature. I'm sure there is better, but what is really interesting for me on NotePad++ is :
Portable edition available for using it on server without any issue
Plugin a portable also
I can use Regex on NotePad++.
I usually search standard code to implement custom code on Dynamics 365FO, to be sure to not reimplement something, take the right pattern or jsut to see new pattern of code from Microsoft and align technical design of them (hate to start from scratch something).
So 2 way to achieve search of code on D365FO solution :
Metadatasearch : Feature available on Visual Studio from the Dynamics 365 button
Here is the link of Microsoft and nothing miore to say about it (maybe, it could be interesting to have more sample of search...)
Pro's :
- Integrated
- you can type object your search
Con's :
- Slow
- You can't save your result
- Too dynamics > When you search something, result are searching. So if you don't know exactly what you are searching (sort of pattern or multiple search), not really easy.
NotePad++ :
By searching in a directory, filtering on XML files, we can achieve the same goal as Metadatasearch and increase it by the regex use
For instance, if you miss how to implement a particular Event Handler with XppPrePostArgs parameter :
If you should to find in the code something with OR criteria : Suing the "|" for work item, comment in the code
For name of object search, you can use Regex directly in the application Explorer !
