Visual Studio To-do regex pattern apostrophe

Hello,

I am using the to-do feature as a syntax coloring feature.

1- The to-do regex pattern is not respecting regex syntax. I am using ^ at the beginning of my patterns to ignore instances starting with ' apostrophe to ignore comments and the regex pattern will match anyways. Example : pattern ^colorMe will also match 'colorMe even though it shouldn't.

2-  Is there another feature in resharper or does anyone use another product to apply custom colors to customs patterns?

Thanks