

Sync release with other VS10x extensions.

Preliminary support for Visual Studio 14 (CTP).Necessary update due to a VS10x Extensions common lib change.Fixed an issue in the services definitions package.Multiple 'VS10X' menu items were sometimes added to the main menu bar.Fixed a problem related to dark theme detection.VS10x Comments Extender can be customized in terms of colors, font size and enabled/disabled state for each comment style.Ĭolor customization can be performed in the Visual Studio " Fonts and Colors" options page (look for items starting with "Comment, "):įont size for large and extra large styles, as well as enabled/disabled state can be set by opening the " VS10x Comments Extender - Customize" dialog box from the VS10x menu entry on the main menubar. You can affect the size - currently, two large sizes (large and extra large) are implemented see the below "Column" comment text in extra large size: " removed code" and " important") - notice the strikethrough font style and grayed-out color used to visually isolate removed code, and the red color used to emphasize an important comment:Īdditionally, a " question" style is available (actually, you can use any different meaning according to your needs) that stands out by using a magenta foreground color:Īnd this obviously is not all of it. Let's have a look at two comment styles (i.e. Here are the possible combinations:Īlso, you can format task comments (TODO, HACK, UNDONE) in terms of foreground color. VS10x Comments Extender will interpret these prefixes and format the comment accordingly. How does it work? Well, when you start a comment with // (C#, C++, F#) or ' (VB), you can add some extra characters (minimum one, maximum three) in order to define how this comment will look like. Let's start with a brief example of what VS10x Comments Extender can help you achieve:

It works with C#, VB, C++, F# and markup language (HTML, ASPX, XML, XAML) documents. By using a simple comment prefix system, you can change the default formatting of a comment by affecting its foreground color, font size and style.

VS10x Comments Extender is a Visual Studio 2013/2012/2010 extension built with the goal of making code commenting more useful from both a documenting and a productivity standpoint. Supercharger can be found/downloaded from the Visual Studio Gallery : It includes a much enhanced version of this tool plus a lot more, all based on a high performance, multithreaded parsing engine with almost zero UI thread overhead. Visual Studio 2015 / 2013 Users : Please use Supercharger instead.
