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Accent Occurrences

The Accent Occurrences extension adds an accent/highlight feature to Visual Studio 2012-2015 that allows you to quickly see all the occurrences of a selected word or selected characters.

Features:

• Customizable colors for background, border, font, and glyph
  • TOOLS → Options... → Environment → Fonts and Colors → Accent Occurrences (Box/Font/Glyph)
• Hold the Ctrl key while selecting text to make the search case sensitive
• Select using the keyboard or mouse

Examples and Customization:

Default

Case sensitive holding down the Ctrl key

LemonLime, 200%

OnTheDarkSide

TOOLS → Options... → Environment → Fonts and Colors → Accent Occurrences (Box/Font/Glyph)

####Build Visual Studio 2012, Visual Studio 2012 SDK, and Visual Studio 2015 are required to build this project. Visual Studio 2012 SDK provides the backwards compatibility to run this extension in older versions of Visual Studio.

Contributing

Pull requests for bug fixes or new features are welcome.

Version History:

1.3.0

• White-space only selections are now ignored. If you select text that contains both white-space and non-white-space characters the white-space will not be ignored.
  • See Github for more details.

1.2.2 - 1.2.1

• Reverted references to an older version allowing the extension to install and run correctly in older versions of Visual Studio.
  • See Github for more details.

1.2.0

• Now installable in Visual Studio 2012-2015 (Community, Pro, and Enterprise).
• Created a GitHub repository for the project.

1.1.0

• Now installable in Visual Studio 2013 as well as 2012.

1.0.1

• Fixed an "Object reference not set to an instance of an object." error that prevented the extension from installing correctly through the Visual Studio Extensions and Updates manager.

1.0.0

• Initial Release

ACCENT: Verb - to give emphasis or prominence to.

Links that were useful in developing this extension

• http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vsx/thread/3e9f0fcf-a03f-4508-9a2a-5b0369377d14
• http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd885121.aspx
• http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/vstudio/b389wd38.aspx
• http://solutions.devx.com/ms/msdn/extending-visual-studio-2010-to-support-additional-programming-languages.html
• http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb166195.aspx
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6641899/how-to-encapsulate-user-setting-options-page-in-visual-studio-2010-addin
• http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/vstudio/ee361745(v=vs.100).aspx
• http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vsx/thread/19a2c13d-86ac-4713-9897-88cc585201f1/