Question

I want to customize the way the text is rendered in Microsoft’s Visual Studio text viewer. The goal is to implement my own complicated algorithm for whitespace handling.

Note: I’ve already written “add-ins” to automate some tasks (include guards, copyright insertion in the file’s header etc…). However, as far as I understand, “add-ins” cannot be used to override the kind of functionality I need.

Is it possible to override the default text rendering? If yes, where do I start?

(Visual studio 2005 is preferred.)

Answer 1

You should look at Visual Studio language services. Try Language Services on MSDN