Visual Studio中的正则表达式搜索

Question

I am trying to find all string literals in Visual Studio which are not empty and not commented out, so I'm using the regular expression search

^((?!//).)*".+"

Which I'm hoping will match the line

 get { return System.Environment.UserName.ToUpper() == "MYUSERNAME"; }

but not

/// Initializes a new instance of the <see cref="ApplicationContext"/> class.

This seems to match what I want on the regex tester at http://regexpal.com but in Visual studio it gives no results.

What could be going wrong here?

Answer 1

Older versions of Visual Studio (before 2012) used their own dialect of regular expressions that are very different to .NET's dialect.

Help for VS's dialect is on MSDN .

Edit : It was VS2012 that switched to using .NET regular expressions.