Support for C++ refactoring in VS (auto-updating references and header/cpp)

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In Visual C# I can rename an entity at its definition, and with two clicks all references to that entity get updated. How do I do this in Visual C++? If it's not supported, is there another IDE that supports it?

Note that in the C++ case I also want automatic header/implementation synchronization, so I hardly ever need to do duplicate work.

score 7 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 15 '09 at 17:32

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VS won't do it alone, but with an add-in like Visual Assist X (Whole Tomato Software) it does quite nicely.

answered Dec 15 '09 at 17:32

Jerry Coffin

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score 1 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:13

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There is Refactor for Visual C++ 2005 (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualc/bb737896.aspx).

Oh, there is similar topic on StackOverflow: Is there a working C++ refactoring tool? - check it!

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answered Dec 15 '09 at 17:32

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Support for C++ refactoring in VS (auto-updating references and header/cpp)

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