Stop Visual Studio from searching text in some file types in project/solution

I have a number of large data files that I included in projects attributed with copy-on-newer. When I search for a string in the project or soluti开发者_运维技巧on, I would like it to not search these large files, since it slows the process way down. Is there are way to have these files in the project, but exempted from the text search?

You can define a wildcard pattern in the search box to include/exclude files of different types. Anything other than *.* will exclude files not in the list.