Search in MSDN forums

I need to search a MSDN forum like "Windows Embedded Compact Native Application Development". Let's say I want to search for "project properties". I've selected the forum at the left pane. Now I entered the search phrase in the field
"Search forums questions".
All I get as answer where any forum posts that contain either the word
project or the word properties but nothing with "project properties". Is there any sensible approach to qualify the search?

Hi,
Currently there is no way to use AND in the search feature. There have been plenty of complaints about this, hopefully we'll get an updated search feature in the future.
There's a thread going in the Suggestions forum that you can add your voice to if you'd like:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/9cf8ad4b-5111-4f84-9809-99cd8f1b7152/make-the-forum-search-tool-useful?forum=suggest
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Complaint about search within MSDN

My complaint involves the really SUCKY search facility on MSDN. Come on, guys, really?
I was trying to locate this page, about MCSD Certification:
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Hi Amy,
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Subject: Dear Oracle: PLEASE improve the SEARCH on these forums!!!
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Read this announcement from the main discussions page:
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Greetings,
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johnrellis wrote:
The drop down box solution isn't effective in this case. ... The default should be to search the forum you are in at the time, with the option to then search all.. this implementation is very user unfriendly.
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dear all,
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Donnie Ashworth wrote:
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Searching in the Forum

HI,
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Sorry, forgot to paste the link!
http://forums.adobe.com/message/2104105#2104105

Searching on the Forums

When searching, it is helpful to first understand the structure of the forums. The discussion forums are organized in a hierarchy starting with category at the highest level and then discussion boards, and then topics within each board. A category is an area in which multiple boards reside. Within a board, you will find numerous user created topics. Within a topic, you will find the original post and the subsequent replies.
Searching from the Homepage
When searching from the homepage using the search box located under the main navigation at the top right of the page, you are searching all categories.
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Currently, our categories consist of Most Active Software Boards, Most Active Hardware Boards, Additional NI Product Boards, and Special Interest Boards -- as well as 9 various language boards. If you are on one of the category pages you will see the default search option is set to search only the boards within the category you are viewing.
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If you are on one of the board pages - such as the LabVIEW board - you will see the search option is set to search only the topics within the board you are viewing.
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Spellcheck in Search
When you are performing a search, the search strings are spellchecked using a weighted dictionary specific to the forum context. When you are conducting a search, your original search string is used as well as a spellchecked version. Depending on the outcomes of the two searches, the search results page displays either the results for the original string or the corrected one, i.e. if one search seems to have better results than the other.
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Yeah, I dont know, this whole thing leaves a bad taste in my mouth. Call me crazy but you would hope that when you buy an expensive phone it would last more than 15 months which is pretty far from forever.. Its ridiculous... Consider me an unhappy customer.
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Where is the 'Search Acrobat Windows Forum' button?

I've largely dropped out of this forum since it changed format (no particular reason, I can see the improvements, but it just seemed to take a bit more time to review and do things), so maybe I'm being dense with my subject line? The first thing I usually want to do when I enter a forum is search for a topic that may answer my question already, but all I see are options to search Adobe globally (no thanks) or all forums (no, I'm in the Acrobat forum because I have an Acrobat question). Once I've returned a list that uselessly includes all forums I get a new Search bar and a dropdown list of Adobe applications, so then I can narrow it down, but I've already used my daily allocation of mouse clicks and am losing interest. Am I missing something?

Bon dias,
You are at "top" of Acrobat Windows Forum.
Enter a string in the Search field.
Click the button at the right.
Wait a moment.
Search returns are presented from all Forums.
Click "More options" (under Search for: <you query string>
Observe the "Where" List.
Select Acrobat Windows (nested under Acrobat) - this is the third line item from the top.
If desired - provide a "When" &/or a "Who" filter.
Click the Search button again.
Search Results are listed for your query string from the Acrobat Windows Forum.
Retain the list by opening a new Tab in your browser when viewing a result.
Review the Search Tips to learn more about what is available with this particular search engine.
While search engines share many features in common, often they do no process the feature exactly the same.
In sum - rather adequate search of specific forums is available.
We might natter about the user interface but for most queries, the forum search is adequate.
Be well...

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