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Ahmed Atia
Ahmed Atia

Reputation: 17980

Visual Studio addin; to highlight all words which match selected word?

While using NotePad++, and select a certain word, it automatically highlights all matched words?

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Does anyone know if there is a Visual Studio addin that can do this? or are there any hidden environment setting that can do this?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 7561

Answers (3)

meetjaydeep
meetjaydeep

Reputation: 1850

Check following addins Productivity Power Tools addin
The background colour of the highlight in Productivity Power Tools is found under
Tools->Options->Productivity Power Tools->Enhanced Scroll Bar->Words Matching The Caret Location Color In The Editor.

or

Use Highlight selected word addin.

Upvotes: 7

detunized
detunized

Reputation: 15299

I believe Visual Assist can do that. This can be switched on in Settings -> Refactoring -> Automatically highlight references to symbol under cursor.

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Upvotes: 3

Tyler Thalman
Tyler Thalman

Reputation: 42

This is something that is automatically done by VS 2010 though if you are using an older version of VS you can get that functionality with third-party addins. For example I used to use an add-in called RockScroll that could highlight usages in a source file (By double clicking on the word) http://www.hanselman.com/blog/IntroducingRockScroll.aspx.

Also ReSharper has that functionality built into it with Cntl + Shft + F7

Upvotes: 2

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