Syntax coloring for FWH and Visual Studio IDE !!!

[Antonio Linares]

This is an easy trick to implement syntax coloring in Visual Studio IDE. It is not perfect, but the results are quite impressive

In Visual Studio Options - Text Editor - File Extension you can map your custom file extension to a Visual Studio editor.

Next, we are going to define "C/C++ user defined keywords":

Also, make sure the "usertype.dat" file is copied to "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\Common7\IDE" and not "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\Common7\IDE"

usertype.dat

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DEFINE
WINDOW
DIALOG
FONT
ACTIVATE
FROM
TITLE
COLOR
SAY
ON
RIGHT
CLICK
VALID
RESOURCE
CENTERED

Until we get a complete usertype.dat, remember that everytime that you modify it, you have to exit and reload Visual Studio to activate it.

And here it is the result

[TimStone]

You are doing this for Visual Studio 2012.

The 2013 is Version 12, not 11.

[Antonio Linares]

Tim,

Yes, but I installed today Visual Studio 2013 Ultimate and it works the same way

[TimStone]

I assumed it would. I'm starting over, refining my prg source code and resources into files contained in the Documents - Visual Studio project folder ... so everything is in one place.