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Tony the Pony
Tony the Pony

Reputation: 41357

Syntax coloring of own types in Visual Studio (C++)

How can I get Visual Studio to highlight my own class types? This works fine for C# but not for C++...

Upvotes: 14

Views: 11942

Answers (4)

browe
browe

Reputation: 198

For those running Visual Studio 2010 Highlighterr may fit your needs. It's also in the MSDN Visual Studio Gallery. It leverages the improved C++ IntelliSense in 2010.

It makes you set special highlighters in Environment -> Fonts and Colors for the types it detects, but overall it works quite well from what I've seen.

Upvotes: 17

sbi
sbi

Reputation: 224069

Install Visual Assist. IIRC, you can download and test it for 30 days.

Beware, though. It's quite addictive. Out of 20 Windows developers I have seen testing this, 18 had their management buy it. :)

Upvotes: 3

Tim Sylvester
Tim Sylvester

Reputation: 23138

MSDN: Defining Keywords in Visual C++

Upvotes: 6

Am1rr3zA
Am1rr3zA

Reputation: 7421

you can use viusal-assist or Re-sharper

both have setting for your syntax highlightin in C# and C++

and do extra work such as make optional short key on IDE for you.

  • Develop new code faster with fewer errors.
  • Quickly understand existing code.
  • Refactor existing code making it easier to read and cheaper to maintain.
  • Eliminate time spent searching by allowing instant navigation to any file, symbol or reference.

Upvotes: 9

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