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Keep your casing with Case-preserving Find and Replace

September 5, 2023 Sep 5, 2023 09/5/23
Leah Tran
The Visual Studio search experience is getting a new feature that allows users to find and replace text without having to worry about different casings. For example, a method parameter `catalogItemId` and object property `CatalogItemId` have the same name but different capitalization but should both be replaced by something like ‘productId...

Modernizing Find in Files

December 12, 2019 Dec 12, 2019 12/12/19
Dante Gagne
Find in Files is one of the most commonly used features in Visual Studio, and in Visual Studio 2019 version 16.5 preview 1, we've given it the first round of improvements to make it faster and look more in line with the overall Visual Studio look and feel. This post will walk through the improvements and help developers get the most out of it.