It takes advantage of the new Intellisense support in VS 2010 to turn on highlighting for classes, structs, macros, and typedefs. This is one step up from defining your own keywords, and gets a little fancier with syntax highlighting. Since you're using VS 2010, another free solution is the Highlighterr for Visual C++ extension. You'll have to restart the IDE for your changes to take effect. The link explains what you'll need to do in more detail, but it's really as simple as placing a plain-text file named "usertype.dat" in the Visual Studio application folder, and typing each of the custom keywords that you want to appear highlighted in their own color on a separate line. This will at least make them show up in the color earmarked for "User Keywords". If you're like me and looking for a low-budget solution, you can define your own keywords. But a lot of your code will indeed be in one color ("Identifiers") if you don't lift a finger.Īs Jerry suggests, Visual Assist X offers far better syntax highlighting than the default. For example, strings, comments, preprocessor directives, operators, numbers, and the built-in keywords all get their own colors. I know that the site owner has been gradually adding functionality to allow support for new color assignments, so perhaps there's something there.No, the problem is that Visual Studio simply doesn't have anywhere near the built-in syntax highlighting support for C++ as it does for C# or VB.NET. Not sure if any of these help, but this might get you started: You can download this style from Dark Style from VS 2015.Īfter download it, just import through menu Tools -> Import and Export Settings. There is a style that I've created based on dark style from VS 2015 to use on my VS 2010. This site has several, including the VS2012 "dark" theme implemented for VS2010. Once you have that, you'll want schemes for the text editor as well.
Install the Visual Studio Color Theme Editor extension:.> import selected environment settings -> (optional to save current settings) -> Browse select and then Finish. To use this theme go to Tools -> Import and Export Setting. Ultimately, being a fan of dark themes, I created one myself which is fully supported from VS2005 to VS2013.ĭownload this dark theme from here: Obsidian Meets Visual Studio So, I tested above themes and found out none of them are showing proper color combination when using Productivity Power Tools in Visual Studio.
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