Include only certain file types when searching in Visual Studio

Often when I want to search through my code in Visual Studio, I know the thing I'm looking for is in some C# code. However, as I've used the same variable name in a JavaScript file, I have to wade through all those search results too. This gets even worse when the text I'm looking for is also used in a third-party JavaScript library that we've brought into the project: this can result in hundreds of search results.

To compound things, our designers include HTML mock-ups of the pages in the same project, so I often find I'm hitting loads of search results in there too.

I guess what I really want is to see results in my .cs, .aspx, and .ascx files, but not .js or .htm.

Is there any way to do any of the following:

• Search only in files of a particular type (search only .cs files).
• Search only in files of any of a given set of types (search only .cs, .aspx and .ascx files).
• Search in all file types except a particular type or types (search everything except .js).

I suspect not, in which case is there any crafty way of working around this?

In the Find in Files dialog (Ctrl+Shift+F), there should be a field called Find Options. You should be able to enter the extensions of fields you want to search in a field in this dialog:

*.cs; *.aspx; *.ascx; 

Instead of Ctrl + F, I think it is Ctrl + Shift + F which gives you the choice to specify file types, you wish to look into.

You can choose file types from default or type your own. Regular expressions available for complex search.

Another way to limit file searches is by only choosing certain folder sets.