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Entrian Source Search is a full-text search engine for your Visual Studio source code.

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130 from 27 May 2008 to 29 Jan 2026
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2026 1

  1. Entrian 2026 update: it’s all good

2024 5

  1. Entrian Attach 1.5.2: Match the exit code
  2. Entrian Source Search 1.8.5: Copy hit text
  3. Entrian Inline Watch 1.0.18: fix for VS compatibility
  4. Entrian Inline Watch 1.0.17: Startup crash fixed
  5. Entrian Inline Watch 1.0.16: Fixes for value display

2022 2

  1. Entrian Source Search 1.8.4: Fixes for High DPI displays and more
  2. Entrian Source Search 1.8.3: Various fixes and features

2021 4

  1. Support for Visual Studio 2022 in all Entrian extensions
  2. Entrian Inline Watch 1.0.14: Crash fix
  3. Entrian Source Search 1.7.21: Various features and fixes
  4. Entrian Attach 1.4.9: Support for .Net Core debugging

2020 2

  1. Entrian Source Search 1.7.20: Better compatibility with mixed-DPI environments
  2. Entrian Inline Watch 1.0.13: Suppress display for a type.

2019 6

  1. Entrian Inline Watch 1.0.12: Double-click to add a Watch entry.
  2. Entrian Source Search 1.7.19: Various bugfixes
  3. Entrian Inline Watch 1.0.11: Support for Visual Studio 2019 version 16.1.
  4. Entrian Source Search 1.7.18: Now works with .NET Framework 4.8 in Visual Studio 2019
  5. Full support for Visual Studio 2019
  6. Support for Visual Studio 2019

2018 2

  1. Entrian Source Search 1.7.15: Saved tabs and history, trim leading whitespace, lots of bugfixes
  2. Entrian Inline Watch 1.0.8: Small fixes and features

2017 19

  1. Entrian Source Search 1.7.14: Fixes for OutOfMemoryException
  2. Entrian Inline Watch 1.0.7: Modeless Config dialog, int64 fix
  3. Entrian Source Search 1.7.13: Lots of bugfixes
  4. Entrian Source Search 1.7.12: Open Folder, font improvements, copy all pathnames
  5. Entrian Source Search 1.7.11: High DPI enhancements; bugfix for tildes in pathnames
  6. Entrian Source Search 1.7.10: Lots of small enhancements
  7. Entrian Source Search 1.7.9: Autocreate indexes
  8. Entrian Attach 1.4.5: Fixed a bogus permission error
  9. Entrian Attach 1.4.4: Crash fix for super-long command lines
  10. Entrian Source Search 1.7.8: Multiple tabs
  11. Entrian Source Search 1.7.7: Out-of-process indexing
  12. Entrian Attach 1.4.3: Trim executable filenames
  13. Entrian Inline Watch 1.0.6: Bugfix for small floating point values
  14. Entrian Source Search 1.7.6: More speed, fewer crashes, fewer kittens (sorry…)
  15. Entrian Source Search 1.7.5: Performance and responsiveness
  16. Entrian Source Search 1.7.4: Multi-token wildcards; query and result coloring
  17. Entrian Inline Watch 1.0.5: Bugfix for popups on High DPI displays
  18. Entrian Source Search 1.7.3: General usability enhancements
  19. Entrian Source Search 1.7.2: Tidy up your index list

2016 13

  1. Entrian Attach 1.4.2: Attach to only one instance
  2. Entrian Inline Watch 1.0.4: Now supports Visual Studio 2017
  3. Entrian Attach 1.4.1: Visual Studio 2017
  4. Entrian Source Search 1.7.1: VS 2017, F8
  5. Entrian Attach 1.3.4: Bugfix for console control events
  6. Entrian Source Search 1.6.4: ‘Work like grep’; better memory usage
  7. Entrian Inline Watch 1.0.3: Fixes for Just My Code and saving settings.
  8. Entrian Inline Watch 1.0.2: Important bugfix for Unity users
  9. Entrian Source Search 1.6.3: index management, command line
  10. Inline Watch 1.0.1: A boatload of bugfixes
  11. Entrian Inline Watch 1.0 RC
  12. Entrian Inline Watch 0.9.12 Beta: Popups and recursive formatting rules
  13. Entrian Inline Watch 0.9.11: Control the decimal places of floats and doubles

2015 12

  1. Entrian Attach 1.3.3: Bugfixes, new hotkey
  2. Entrian Inline Watch 0.9.5: More powerful accessor display
  3. Entrian Inline Watch 0.9.3: Template support; Optional raw pointers
  4. Entrian Inline Watch 0.9.1: Less clutter, fewer bugs
  5. Entrian Source Search 1.5.4: Sorting bug fixed
  6. Entrian Inline Watch 0.8.9: Hide values for given types; other fixes
  7. Entrian Inline Watch 0.8.8: Better object expressions
  8. Entrian Inline Watch 0.8.6: More object formatting power!
  9. Entrian Source Search 1.5.3: VS2015, Preview Tab, High-Contrast Theme, Bugfixes
  10. New: Entrian Inline Watch displays live variable values inline in your code as you debug
  11. Entrian Attach 1.3.1: Supports Visual Studio 2015, plus Wildcards
  12. Entrian Source Search 1.5.2 Beta: Now supports Visual Studio 2015

2014 6

  1. Entrian Attach 1.2.3: Fix for attaching the Visual Studio debugger to Java processes
  2. Entrian Source Search 1.4.21: Various bugs stomped
  3. Entrian Source Search 1.4.20: Memory leak fixed
  4. Entrian Source Search 1.4.19: Bugfix
  5. Source Search 1.4.18: A better citizen
  6. Entrian Source Search 1.4.17: Save keystrokes, hide bogus errors

2013 11

  1. Entrian Source Search 1.4.15: F# highlighting, speedups, hotkey for substring search
  2. Entrian Source Search 1.4.14: Memory leak fixed
  3. Entrian Source Search 1.4.13: Automatic phrase search
  4. Entrian Attach 1.2.2: Attach to running processes according to their window title
  5. Entrian Attach 1.2: Support for Visual Studio 2013
  6. Entrian Source Search 1.4.12: Support for Visual Studio 2013 plus bugfixes
  7. Source Search 1.4.11: It’s in the Gallery
  8. New product: Entrian Attach: Automatically attach the debugger to processes as they start
  9. Entrian Source Search 1.4.10: Search by modification time, and more
  10. Entrian Source Search 1.4.9: Fuzzy search and other new features
  11. Entrian Source Search 1.4.8: Loose search, wildcards in quoted phrases

2012 4

  1. Entrian Source Search 1.4.7: More responsive indexing, sundry bugfixes
  2. Entrian Source Search 1.4.4 – Visual Studio 2012 Dark Theme, more powerful Inclusion/Exclusion
  3. Source Search 1.4.2: Bugfix
  4. Entrian Source Search 1.4.1 – Visual Studio 2012 support

2011 5

  1. Entrian Source Search 1.3.14
  2. Windows Debugging Tools: GFlags: Beware 32 vs. 64 bit!
  3. Entrian Source Search 1.3.13: Bugfix for XAML files
  4. Entrian Source Search 1.3.12
  5. Entrian Source Search 1.3.11: Fonts and encodings

2010 3

  1. Entrian Source Search 1.3.10
  2. Entrian Source Search 1.3.9: Force index refresh
  3. No, Netgear DG834, the BBC iPlayer is not a Denial of Service attack

2009 16

  1. Entrian Source Search 1.3.8: A bugfix release
  2. Oh come on Windows, you can do better than that.
  3. Entrian Source Search 1.3.7: Export your search results
  4. Entrian Source Search 1.3.6: New hotkey: Activate without searching
  5. Entrian Source Search 1.3.4: Better searching, better sorting.
  6. Entrian Source Search 1.3.3: Custom sort, custom verbosity, and more
  7. Entrian Source Search 1.3.2: Out Of Memory errors and window positioning
  8. Entrian Source Search 1.3.1: Line numbers and improved vs2010 support
  9. Entrian Source Search now brings super-fast code search and navigation to Visual Studio 2010!
  10. Rational Purify and the “Microsoft DIA SDK”: how to make it work
  11. Setting a Visual Studio breakpoint on a Win32 API function in user32.dll
  12. Announcing Entrian Source Search 1.2.3
  13. Entrian Source Search 1.2.2 is now available
  14. Spell checking entrian.com with Spellr.us
  15. Announcing Entrian Source Search 1.2.1
  16. Announcing Entrian Source Search 1.2

2008 19

  1. Announcing Entrian Source Search 1.1.2
  2. “It works for me”, or, “How does it know a developer’s using it?!”
  3. Entrian Source Search 0.98.3 Beta
  4. Announcing Entrian Source Search 0.98.2 Beta
  5. Entrian Source Search 0.98 Beta
  6. Entrian Source Search 0.97 Beta released
  7. Entrian Source Search 0.96 Beta released
  8. Entrian Source Search 0.95 Beta
  9. C++, MFC, sanity, insanity
  10. Guess I picked the wrong month to collapse a lung
  11. Entrian Source Search 0.94 Beta
  12. 30 day product challenge: The half-way point.
  13. Drop shadows for non-rectangular windows: CS_DROPSHADOW and SetWindowRgn.
  14. Don’t Wreck My PC! – What to call the saved s?
  15. The “Don’t Wreck My PC!” startup screen is done. Opinions?
  16. Project ClickStop gets its proper name. Or does it?
  17. The ClickStop UI: Taking a leaf from Remote Desktop’s book
  18. The 30 day product challenge: ClickStop
  19. Entrian Source Search 0.93 Beta