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Does anyone know how to copy all the lines in the Visual Studio "Find Symbol Results" window onto the clipboard? You can copy a single line, but I want to copy them all.

I can't believe that I'm the first one to want to do this, but I can't even find a discussion about this apparently missing feature.

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From my previous experience and a few tests I just did, there is no built in feature to do this.

Why do you want to do this? Why do you want to copy all of the references to the clipboard? As I understand it the speed of these features would make having a static copy of all the references would be relatively useless if you can generate a dynamic and complete copy quickly.

You can always extend visual studio to add this functionality, see this post at egghead cafe.

I can't say these searches complete quickly for me. I have a rather large solution with multiple interdependent projects and searching for symbols takes many minutes (and no, my machine is not a total dog). Additionally, the output contains several hundred lines, which is somewhat cumbersome. Unfortunately, these searches are smarter that anything I could easily do manually and I'd also like to be able to compare the output of several similar searches.Maybe I'm just cranky today, but to me this really does seem to be a missing feature.
Mr. Putty
I've been playing around with the extensibility in Visual Studio quite a bit lately and in spite of the mediocre tutorials and documentation you can do a lot of cool stuff to extend visual studio, and starting an add on is a wizard away. I encourage you to add this, as it shouldn't be that hard to do.