Visual C++ 2010 has some sort of weird syntax highlighting issue when it comes to tab characters inside comments, and I know this is a trivial issues, but it’s driving me crazy. I’m going to have to show you some screenshots so you will understand what I mean…
This is in Visual C++ 2010 Express

Same thing pasted in Visual C++ 2008 Express

I was able to reproduce this in Visual Studio 2010 and the 2011 preview.
To reproduce:
The only solution was to change the back colour of all text (Plain Text), which I don’t think you wanted to do or to go back to 2008 Express