JSON Javascript highlighting in Visual Studio 2010

Question

Does anybody know how to get VS 2010 to use the same highlighting for a file called .JSON as it uses for a JavaScript file? Just working on a client site and they\'ve named

Answer 1

Great news!

In CTP2 of Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 that was added a New JSON project item and editor

Answer 2

Tools -> Options -> Text Editor -> File Extension

End your extension 'json' and select 'Script Editor' and click 'add'.

Re-open any json documents for it to take affect.

Answer 3

Another option is to use Text Highlighter (extention for Visual Studio 2010), which offers syntax highlighting for the following text formats:

• .json (also offer syntax validation)
• .bat
• .cmd
• .ini
• .txt
• .log