Visual Studio/Notepad++: Highlight repeat occurrences of selection text?

Question

I use Notepad++ for all my note-taking, copying and pasting, rapid prototyping, etc. It's freaking awesome. (Just wish it had some cloud storage instead! That's another topic though.)

Now, in Notepad++, when I have a script like that below, and double-click "foobar" to select and highlight it, everywhere else "foobar" appears, it's also highlighted:

function foobar() { var _foobar = "foobar"; return _foobar; }

Is there any way to get this in Visual Studio 2010? It's more a functional than stylistic feature, programmatically, I would imagine, so I doubt it's possible in VS. But it may be, perhaps?

Answer 1

There are extensions for VS2010 - Highlight all occurrences of selected word to highlight the same words. And Productivity power tools to highlight all occurrences even if they are in the different words.