vs-extensibility

Idea for extending C# syntax

Hi, C# unfortunately does not allow for extra user-defined syntax. But I was wondering whether it was possible to surpass this limitation by tapping into the visual studio onbuild-event. Suppose I have some syntactic sugar which could be easily translated into actual C# code. If I were to automatically translate a cs document containin...

VS 2010 Custom Classification Format Using VS Pre-Defined Fonts and Colors

I am trying to add some basic syntax highlighting for a new content type in Visual Studio 2010. I am starting with using the Ook Language sample from Microsoft along with a number of channel 9 VSX videos. I do have a working prototype setting the formatting for each tag in the ClassificationFormatDefinition for it just like the Ook pro...