Tonight I pushed a new version of my Viasfora extension for Visual Studio. In this version, I fixed some features that were not working on Visual Studio 2013 due to the introduction of a new HTML editor, particularly highlighting closing HTML tags.

What's exiting to me, however, is the new feature: Rainbow Parentheses:

[caption id="attachment_1388" align="alignnone" width="501"]Rainbow Parentheses Rainbow Parentheses[/caption]

This is a Visual Studio version inspired by one of my favorite Vim plugins. Features:

  • Supported for C#, C/C++ and JavaScript files.
  • Highlights {}, [] and () braces.
  • Supports 4 different nesting levels, format for each one can be customized through the Tools -> Options dialog (Rainbow Parentheses 1-4).

Comments, bug reports and feature requests are always welcome. Enjoy!


Tomas Restrepo

Software developer located in Colombia.