How to highlight occurrences of a search term in text in Visual Studio?

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axk picture axk · Nov 2, 2008 · Viewed 21.2k times · Source

How do I make all occurrences of a phrase (search term) in a file to be highlighted in the VS code editor?

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Alex Duggleby picture Alex Duggleby · Nov 2, 2008

I noticed that a nice side effect of the Rock-Scroll plugin is that when you double-click a keyword it highlights all occurrences in the file (and in the rock scroll preview) as well.

http://microsoftdev.blogspot.com/2008/05/rock-scroll-visual-studio-plugin.html

Hope that helps, Alex

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