In Visual Studio 2010, how do you search for text that is not within a single line comment?

Question

In Visual Studio 2010, how do you search for text that is not within a single line comment? E. G. how to find \"bas\" in:

foo bar bas

but n

Answer 1

In the Visual Studio Find dialog, try using this regular expression (make sure to select Use: Regular expressions in the Find options):

~(//[.:b]*)

This should find all occurrences of the word bas which are not preceded by //.

Note that the Visual Studio regex syntax is a bit different than the conventional syntax. You can find the reference HERE.