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A simple addin which adds toggle buttons for various find options (Match Case, Match Whole Word) in Visual Studio 2005 & 2008.

This is behavior that existed in prior versions of Visual Studio, but was removed in 2005.

A version that works with Visual Studio 2010 is available on the Visual Studio Gallery.

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Addin created by Aaron Marten.
Last edited Jun 11 2010 at 12:18 AM  by AaronMarten, version 4
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bpdavis wrote  Mar 21 2008 at 10:57 PM  
Thank you so much for sharing this addin with the community. Don't know why these features were removed from the IDE in the first place, but it's a moot point now that they're back. Perhaps it will be added permanently to the next version of VS?

Rox wrote  May 5 2008 at 11:21 AM  
When i discovered that the search toggles had been removed from Visual C++ 2005, i was devastated. My project has more than a million lines of C++ and html files, and i simply cannot continue development without these toggles. For this reason, i have continued to develop under VC6, using VC2005 only for compiling optimized releases. Like many developers, i was beginning to wonder if VC6 was the limit of Microsoft's ingenuity and every compiler thereafter would be technologically retrograde.

After VC2005 was released, I searched the online forums for a solution, and i found many complaints about the missing feature and a few promises from Microsoft that the feature would return in the next compiler. I waited years for VC2008, and when i discovered that the search toggles were still missing, i felt incredibly disappointed, not just for myself, but for thousands of other developers who were let down, and for thousands of new developers who will never discover how useful this simple feature is. I wish someone had told me about the possibility of a VC2005 add-in a long time ago. Maybe i would have continued to develop under VC6 anyway, but now i fully intend to use only VC2008 for everything.

Thank God for this add-in. Now the only problem is that after installing it, the icons are horizontally stretched by a few pixels. They are making my toolbar look ugly. I studied the source code and could not find any reason why it might be stretching a 16x16 button icon, so i'm assuming it is a bug in the Visual Studio's VSI handler.

Thanks again for this add-in. And can somebody at Microsoft please slap whoever it is that keeps deciding not to re-include this feature in the distribution?

AaronMarten wrote  Jul 24 2008 at 5:08 PM  
Thanks, Rox. I've passed along your feedback to the core editor team.

GregM wrote  Aug 20 2008 at 5:16 PM  
We've just switched from VS2003 to VS2005, and several members of my team were annoyed at the loss of these buttons. I passed around this Addin, and everyone is much happier now.

Thanks a bunch.

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