Question

When refactor->renaming MyMethod in the following example in Visual C# 2010 Express, the method name ‘MyMethod’ in the comment won’t be changed.

Usually that a comment isn’t touched by refactor/rename is for good reasons, since how should the IDE know that it’s not just some word but actually references the very method that it is refactoring.

So is there a way in which a word in a comment can be bound to a class/method/variable name within Visual C# 2010 Express, so that it’s changed as well during refactoring/renaming?

If there are several ways what would be the easiest/cheapest way?
(cheapest – in case of plugins or commercial versions)

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;

namespace ConsoleApplication1
{
  /// text for class MyClass
  public class MyClass
  {
    /// <summary><c>MyMethod</c> is a method in the <c>MyClass</c> class.
    /// </summary>
    public static void MyMethod(int Int1)
    {
    }
    /// text for Main
    public static void Main()
    {
      Console.ReadLine();
    }
  }

}

Answer 1

At least in the commercial editions, the rename dialog (press F2) has an Search in Comments checkbox.