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Highlighting Selected Text automatically in Visual Studio

Jul 20, 2011 • Dev Tools, Tip, Visual Studio • Less than a minute read

I’ve used Eclipse and always loved the way that any selected text is automatically discovered elsewhere in the current file and highlighted – this is also available in Notepad++.

Plugins to the rescue! There’s WordLight for Visual Studio 2008 and another called Highlight all occurrences of selected word.

Post by: Philip Hendry