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

Question

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

Answer 1

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. :)

Answer 2

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.

Answer 3

MSDN: Defining Keywords in Visual C++

Answer 4

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.

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