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Go to menu, TOOLS, Options, Text Editor, C/C++, Advanced, and change the “Disable Reference Highlighting” option.
Turn Off Automatic Highlighting of Matching Words in Visual Studio 2022 (C++)
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Ford, Kyle
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How do I toggle the highlighting of "matching words" for C/C++ in the text editor?
I found a similar question for "Visual Basic" and "C#".
I am unable to find the option(s) for "C/C++".
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Michael Taylor 60,326 Reputation points2024-03-29T15:17:22.79+00:00 In Options, go to
Text Editor \ C/C++ \ View. Then go down toMiscellaneousand finallyHighlight Matching Tokens. Alternatively go to the Options and typeMatchingin the search bar and it'll do the same thing. -
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Nicolas 1 Reputation point2024-12-03T23:41:46.84+00:00 Sadly, these options do not work for XAML. When editing WPF you can select controls in the UI. In previous versions of Visual Studio this would highlight the control in the code so you could find the code easily for a given control. Now it highlights the control and all the ones like it.
For example, if your UI has 10 buttons and you select one of the buttons, all the <Button> tags are highlighted so you don't know which button you just selected.
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Viorel 122.6K Reputation points2024-12-05T11:39:38.04+00:00 I think that the options were intended for C and C++ sources.
To work around the problem of WPF, select the element in Designer, then press the “XAML” button, which is displayed between the Designer and XAML panels. The current element will be highlighted. Or enable the Line numbers for XAML; then the number of the line, containing the active control, will be highlighted.
The issue can be reported here:
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