C# structural highlighting in Visual Studio 2008

Question

Hi,

I'm looking for an add-in to VS2008 that can enable structural highlighting (vertical lines in blocks of code) in the C# code editor.

I tried out CodeRush, but while the structural highlighting was great, I was annoyed with all the other stuff in CodeRush. No matter how much I disabled in the options, I couldn't quite get rid of it.

So I'm looking for another add-in that enables structural highlighting and (ideally) nothing else. Know of any?

Answer 1

While browsing the ViEmu site, I saw the Codekana product which looks like it may do what you want.

Answer 2

Is the Indentation Guide from the SlickEdit Free Gadgets what you're looking for?

Answer 3

I'm using a JetBrains resharper to handle this as well (http://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/) and found it to be a great tool for much more tasks.

If you need just highlighting, that may be npt your case though

Answer 4

ReSharper (www.jetbrains.com) can outline a scope. If the scope is too large for the editor it displays the first line (heading) of the scope when the cursor stays on the closing curly brace/parenthesis.

Answer 5

See my answer to this post. Maybe this is all you need?

Answer 6

I was annoyed with all the other stuff in CodeRush

If you can provide additional details on features that annoy you, I can help you to disable them :)