Fix for VS2013 wildcard search and replace in IDE

Is There a fix for this annoying issue?

Well I've not ever used anything but word search replace using a word or word search replace with regex in Visual Studio.
And since that is all I've used I don't find it difficult to use. Or having to lookup
regex for use in Visual Studio in order to find what I need to use. As you can see in the below image I'm using regex wildcards. In the first image I don't have the Match Case control selected so the match is extending outside of the words (String)
I want to replace. In the next image that control is selected. I suppose if the "s" in "As" was capitalized then that regex wouldn't be a good one to use. But this (S....g) would work where a period represents a single character.
It seems to me Visual Studio 2012 didn't use Regex but some Microsoft Offshoot of whatever regex capability styles they wanted to use rather than what Regex actually uses though they called it regex. I don't know if that changed between then and below which
is Visual Studio 2015 Preview. So possibly you could tell MS that you know Regex but Visual Studio 2013 doesn't seem to work with Regex so maybe they should fix it to work correctly if they really expect you to use Regex with it and not some offshoot of Regex
their own programmers went out and incorrectly created to use with Visual Studios IDE. Then again maybe it works correctly now.
La vida loca

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I think NI is maybe misunderstanding how people are actually using a project. Not every vi that is being called is going to be explicitly listed in the project. (Its this same issue that makes source distributions impossible in 8.2 - you can't target dependencies to a support library so every dependency has to be explicitly listed in the project - which is virtually impossible because they are all in different locations and there are hundreds.) Most people have lots of general purpose vi's they use in many different projects, and they are buried down in code so we aren't even sure where they are all being used. The new searches you mention assume you already know where the low-level function is and you are looking for their callers. But sometimes you don't even know where the low level function is. What if its an NI directory function? For example, "resample waveform.vi" is an NI function that changed its defaults in 8.2 which meant we had to find every single place we used it and wire "open-interval?" to a constant instead of depending on the default value. Its in an NI library somewhere and is never listed as a project vi. So when I needed to find every place through every project that I used this vi, I couldn't do it through the project manager because there is no search function. To be practical I add the project-specific vi's to the project, and maybe a couple support directories, but there will always be lots of vi's as dependencies. But every now and then I'm still going to want to search for one of these vi's. So in 8.5 there is there still no way to search for vi's that aren't explicitly listed in the project?
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