Suggestion - searching source for constants.

[hgleaves-ncuadmin]

Please consider adding an ability to search all files for constants (for whatever language we're using). Currently Visual Studio (nor VS Code) have this.

The goal here is to:

• Search for constant strings, ints, floats etc.
• Right click a constant in the source and offer "Find all references".

This is a gap in the tools, but would be very helpful especially for large legacy solutions where lots of hard coding may have crept in.

We can use Find in Files but this is crude and not able to distinguish true constants in the language from comments or identifier names.

e.g. find all constants "TestUser" would find all ocurrences of that string (but not var TestUser = ... and so on).

Under the hood a constant (in the language like say C#) is more or less a reference to something and so I suppose the Roslyn code could do this.

Thanks

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