visual studio 2017 search and replace regular expressions group

Sometimes you write some codes and then you find your self want to change a suffix or prefix in your codes or classes names or namespaces

I will show with an example how to do it.

 let us supposed we need to change the following "Manager" sub-string into the class name

public interface IParticipantImageManager

in visual studio click on ctrl + shift + H use any website to test your regular expression, personally I use regex101 to write the right expression and the replace it.


to find the string

IParticipantImage(\w+)

and to replace the sting

IParticipantImage$1