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Are there any free plugins for Visual Studio (2005 & 2008) that highlight all words in the current document that match a highlighted word? This feature is in Notepad++ and Eclipse, but strangly not in VS.

I've tried the free version of CodeRush Express for c#, but it only works for c#. I would like the plugin to work regardless of the type of code I'm writing (c#, JavaScript, C++)

I've also tried RockScroll, but I only want the highlighting feature.

Thanks

A: 

Find all references in VS doesn't help you?

noesgard
BTW: A highlight all references will be built into VS 2010 it seems:http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=434901
noesgard
Find all references works, but takes a few mouse clicks and still doesn't highlight the matches
Andrew Dwyer
A: 

Visual Assist may have this feature

it is not free but you can try evaluation..

ufukgun
+1  A: 

Visual Assist has this.

It also has many other features that make it well worth its price. You can download a trial and check it out. Be warned, though: I have yet to see someone who had the trial used for a week and didn't ask management to buy it. Just by asking it for me to work with, I already have infected three shops with it...

sbi