How to make Visual Studio 2010 highlight identical, selected words in editor ?
I would like to enable (if it exists) an option in Visual Studio 2010 that would highlight the same identical words to the selected ones. There is a feature like this already implemented e.g. in Notepad++ it looks more or less like this :
Does anyone know if it exists in Visual Studio 2010 ?
There is an extension on Microsofts Visual Studio Gallery named "Highlight all occurrences of selected word" which promises what you're looking for.
Umm, this is a built in feature.
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/zainnab/archive/2010/01/18/how-to-use-reference-highlighting.aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee349251.aspx
People Looking for visual studio 2015:
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=PaulCzywczynski.Highlightalloccurrencesofselectedword
It's a modified version of Nicholas Sha's plugin by Paul Czywczynski. The syntax highlighting looks just like notepad++, but better.
It puts little markers on the line numbers of the occurances.
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