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    copied!<p><strong>Tools I use and like:</strong></p> <p>I have found <strong>grepwin</strong> to be a good tool to find and also replace things in text files.</p> <p>It is easy to install, easy to use, and it can replace... it can show the contents of the file, the line that it found the text, and has support to regular expressions. Lots of things to play with, in a single interface.</p> <p>It covers all your requirements, but this: <em>'Ideally a pluging to VS'</em>... but it can be integrated manually, like described bellow.</p> <p>Supports: <em>'aggressive refactoring'</em> =), <em>'regex'</em> and <em>'file type filters'</em>.</p> <ul> <li><p><a href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/grepwin/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Home page</a> or <a href="http://tools.tortoisesvn.net/grepWin.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://tools.tortoisesvn.net/grepWin.html</a></p></li> <li><p><a href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/grepwin/files/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Download page</a></p></li> <li><p>Integrating manually:<a href="https://sourceforge.net/p/grepwin/wiki/VisualStudioIntegration/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Integrating grepWin into Visual Studio</a></p></li> </ul> <p><em>I like it and used it for some time now.</em></p> <p><strong>Other tools:</strong></p> <p>If you don't like it take a look here:</p> <p><a href="http://www.thefreecountry.com/programming/searchandreplace.shtml" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://www.thefreecountry.com/programming/searchandreplace.shtml</a></p> <p>lots of external tools exists... you could eventually make a VS Macro to open the external application, and give it some parameters. But this is just an option... I would not follow this option, because it is too complex for the matter.</p>
 

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