How can I search in Visual Studio and get it to ignore what is commented out?

Question

I am refactoring a C++ codebase in Visual Studio 2005. I\'m about half way through this process now and I\'ve commented out a lot of old code and replaced or moved it. Now I\'

Answer 1

Just to add on, as I was doing a "find all" for division operator used in the code, used the below to exclude comments as well as and /> from aspx files:

^~(.*//)~(.*/\*)~(.*\<\/)~(.*/\>).*/