More traps ... once I attempted to run find-and-replace through folders of files in Visual Studio 2012 I ran into two more problems:
The syntax of regular expressions changed from 2010 to 2012 and I never read about this or noticed it until this morning. All of my find and replaces did nothing, so I wasted another 40 minutes trying hundreds of combinations of patterns using my printed "reminder sheets" as a guide, but nothing happened. By fluke I pressed F1 in the dialog, which took me to a VS2013 screen, then I went to VS2012 and I found the notice about the change of syntax: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/vstudio/2k3te2cs.aspx. So my reminder sheets are in the bin and I'll print fresh ones for VS2012. Once I had the expressions correct I found that a regex find would work over folders of files, but a replace changed nothing. I have tried many combinations and it seems true that a VS2012 find-and-replace with regular expressions does NOT work over a folder. If I open the files in the IDE it works. Is this a real bug? Greg
