RegEx'ing in Visual Studio with the Regular Expression Tester Extension

Visual Studio Gallery - Regular Expression Tester Extension

Features

The tool provides the following features:

• Parsing of your existing regular expressions from code for C# and VB.
• Parentheses matching.
• Instant compilation of your regular expressions as you type along with error message feedback.
• Matches, groups and captures highlighted in color on your input data so you get an easy overview of exactly how your regular expression matches your data.
• Saving regular expressions for later use.
• Evaluation is performed in a background thread so it can be aborted if it gets stuck on an inefficient regular expression (try for instance (a|aa)*b on aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa)

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If you're RegEx'ing having an extension like this handy is a must...

 

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