Question

I just spent hours trying to debug my code. The whole problem boiled down to a line:

a == b;

when I really wanted

a = b;

A classic and foolish problem. The thing is, my eyes just glossed over == every time I checked this section of code.

Is there a way to enable a syntax highlighting (squiggles) on all == outside of conditionals?

That is, I want Visual Studio to warn me when I have an == outside of an if(), while(), for(), ?:, etc. This program was in C++, but I would like the same feature for C# editing.

I’d settle for something that would let me (easily) set error squiggles using regex.

Answer 1

This doesn’t actually answer your question, but the question seems moot given that the compiler should have given a level 1 warning for that: C4553