Visual Studio: Syntax highlighting for Doxygen-style C++ comments

Question

I want enchanted syntax coloring in comments for C++ language in Visual Studio 2010. For example, I have the following code:

/*!
      \sa testMeToo()
      \param a the first argument.
      \param s the second argument.
*/
int testMe(int a,const char *s);

In Visual Studio all \param , \sa and other Doxygen commands are not highlighted. Is it possible to add custom highlighting to Visual Studio?

As for me ideal syntax highlighting for such C++ comments is in Anjuta (GNU/Linux C++ IDE).

Thanks.

UPDATE

I wrote EnhancedCommentsCpp addon for Visual Studio 2010/2012 that highlights Doxygen commands:

http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/11a30c1c-593b-4399-a702-f23a56dd8548

This is how it looks like:

Answer 1

You can use Visual Studio Extensibility to add custom syntax highlighting. You'll have to check MSDN and the Visual Studio Extensibility SDK to find out how though.

Answer 2

Since there were no maintained extensions available for recent Visual Studio versions for quite some time now that implement syntax highlighting of Doxygen comments, I wrote one: VSDoxyHighlighter is available on the Visual Studio marketplace and on github .

The extension currently supports Visual Studio 2022 and the highlighting can be enabled/disabled separately for // , /// , //! , /* , /** and /*! comments. It also comes with two default color sets, one for dark and one for light VS themes: