CODEWITHSUNDEEP
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VZ.
VZ.

Reputation: 22678

Any way to disable highlighting code inside preprocessor conditionals in MSVS 2015?

MSVS 2015 tries to be helpful and evaluate the value of preprocessor constants in conditionals, e.g. if it thinks that FOO is not defined, it greys out all the code inside it:

#ifdef FOO
... everything here is greyed out ...
#endif

Unfortunately, at least for the projects I'm working with, it almost always gets the value of FOO wrong meaning that almost the entire contents of the file is greyed out which is quite annoying as it seriously harms readability.

I don't blame the IDE for getting the value wrong, as it's defined in quite a tortuous way, but I'd really love to have a way to just disable this feature entirely and tell it not to bother with it. Would anyone know of a way to do it?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 67

Answers (1)

Sergey Vlasov
Sergey Vlasov

Reputation: 27880

In Visual Studio 2015 options, set Text Editor - C/C++ - View - Show Inactive Blocks to False.

Upvotes: 1

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