Visual Studio 2017 & 2019 highlight occurrences of selected word in scrollbar

Question

When I mark a word (of any kind) I would like all occurrences (in that particular file) of that word to be highlighted in the scrollbar on the right hand side.

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Answer 1

This was a feature in VS15 and VS13.

Actually it was not.

It is a feature of the Productivity Power Tools extension. That extension is now just an installer for separate single feature extensions. I think you'll be wanting Match Margin.

Answer 2

Right now, the only way I know (without installing new extensions) is to select (double click) the word and hit ctrl-f (find). Scroll map should highlight all occurences (mine are orange)

Answer 3

There's another extension which does exactly this, with options to customize colors and more. it called Word Highlight With Margin.

The extension created by Trung Kien Phan

Screenshots

VS2017/VS2019 Version

Download link from Visual Studio market place - VS2017, VS2019

Previous versions:

VS2015

VS2010, VS2012, VS2013