Viasfora

A Visual Studio 2022 extension that enhances the text editing experience!

Official Site: http://viasfora.com/

Build Status:

Last version supporting Visual Studio 2019 and previous releases can be found Here.

Rainbow Braces

Colorize ()/[]/{} based on depth!

Keyword classification

• Colorize flow-control keywords
  
• Colorize LINQ keywords
  
• Colorize visibility keywords
  

String colorization

• Highlighting escape sequences in strings
  
• Highlighting C/C++ format specifiers in strings
  

Outlining

• User-defined Outlining regions
  
• Creating new outlining sections based on selected text
  

Text obfuscation

Provides an easy way to hide text in the editor during presentations, based on regular expressions.

Configuration

Runtime Enable with the View -> Obfuscate Text command:

XML editor extensions

• Colorizing namespace prefixes
  
• Coloring closing element tags
  
• Matching element tags
  
• Resolving namespace prefixes
  

Other features

• Presentation Mode
• Simple modelines support
• Editor margin for extension developers
• All options configurable from the Visual Studio Options dialog

Supported Languages

Most features include support for the following languages

• C/C++
• C#
• VB, VBScript
• F#
• JavaScript
• SQL, U-SQL
• TypeScript
• Python
• PowerShell
• CSS, SASS, LES
• S
• R
• HLSL
• Fortran

Building

Visual Studio 2022 is needed for building from source.