Monthly Archives: May 2017

Semantic C# code highlighting in Visual Studio 2017

Posted on May 17, 2017 by Sergey Vlasov

A basic code colorizer highlights language keywords, comments and string. A semantic highlighter performs full language parsing which results in very accurate understanding of code and may, for example, give local variables a distinct color to improve the comprehensibility of … Continue reading →

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Tabs Studio v4.2 adds support for SSMS 17

Posted on May 15, 2017 by Sergey Vlasov

Tabs Studio is a Visual Studio and SSMS extension empowering you to work comfortably with any number of open documents. v4.2 adds support for SQL Server Management Studio 17, adds VS theme support to the tab context menu, changes Marker … Continue reading →

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Read and understand code faster with programming ligatures in Fira Code font

Posted on May 1, 2017 by Sergey Vlasov

A ligature occurs where two or more graphemes or letters are joined as a single glyph. For example, Fira Code font by Nikita Prokopov contains a set of ligatures for common programming multi-character combinations like ++, >= or != : … Continue reading →

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