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Asked: 2026-05-15T06:14:01+00:00

Coming from Eclipse, I’m disappointed with the very limited syntax coloring capabilities offered for

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Coming from Eclipse, I’m disappointed with the very limited syntax coloring capabilities offered for C# by Visual Studio (all versions, up to 2010).

In particular, I’m interesting in distinct coloring for methods / fields / locals / static stuff.

I’m aware Visual Assist can enhance the coloring, but I’ve failed to find any free alternative capable of doing that, so I’m turning to SO (I hope it’s programming-related enough). Is there any free (or at least cheaper than Visual Assist) solution capable of enhancing the syntax coloring for C#?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Well, I could understand from the rest of the responses that the answer is a resounding “no, there is no such extension available for free”, so I ended up writing one on my own:

    better syntax coloring

    (light brown for methods, magenta for variables, otherwise their color would have been black)

    It’s a bit crude, but it works for me – and it was free 🙂

    EDIT: Anyone interested in doing the same – using the “Editor Classification” template, bundled with the Visual Studio SDK, is a great starting point.

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