Visual Studio search and replace with regular expressions

by Ravi Tuvar 1:42 AM 0 comments

So for the sake of removing all of this clutter here are some simple regular expression patterns to find and replace with empty string. First, to enable searching by regular expressions:

Search dialog

If you want to:	Use regular expression:
Remove regions	{[#]<region[^]*}|{[#]<endregion[^]*}
Remove comments	[^]*//[^]*
Remove XML comments	[^]*///[^]*
Remove empty lines	{^:Wh}{$:Wh}