Did you know… You can narrow search results by turning off partial matches? - #377

If you do a search for the phrase “how to create a custom winform control” using the default options in the General Development Environment, you’ll get back 500 results, as shown below.

search query with 500 results

If you go to Tools – Options – Help – General (and in VS shell, add Environment in the node path), you’ll see the option include partial matches in local search results.

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If you uncheck this option and repeat the search, you’ll have only 9 hits in local help to scan through instead of 500.

same search query with only 9 results

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