Can I somehow change the color of field/local variables separately like in Visual Studio? Heres how it looks like in Visual Studio (field variable assignment, readwrite is green, and local variable assignment, readwrite is white):

Syntax highlighting determines the color and style of source code displayed in the Visual Studio Code editor. It is responsible for colorizing keywords like if or for in JavaScript differently than strings and comments and variable names.

Dec 10, 2021 · Starting from c# 10.0 came a new way of a namespace declaration, aka File-Scoped. For Visual Studio 2022 all look fine, but not for VSCode: See the old way of namespace declaration and the new one. And it's not up to the selected theme. Is it …

Dec 23, 2023 · The difference is that semantic highlightning is provided by the language server which knows a lot more about the code then the more generic highlighter. This is most likely due to the C# extension loading your solution (GeekBrains.sln in …

Jul 8, 2023 · By customizing syntax highlighting in Visual Studio Code, we can improve the readability of our code and adapt it to our preferences. We can define different colors for keywords, variables, text strings, comments and other …

Lightweight Visual Studio editor classifier extension based on the async Roslyn APIs to highlighting custom tags in C# and Visual Basic code.

Semantic highlighting is an addition to syntax highlighting as described in the Syntax Highlight guide. Visual Studio Code uses TextMate grammars as the main tokenization engine. TextMate grammars work on a single file as input and break it up based on lexical rules expressed in regular expressions.

Jun 17, 2020 · The semantic highlighting is an exciting feature that improves the quality of syntax highlighting when working with C# in VS Code. I encourage you to enable this experimental setting and provide any bug report feedback in the extension repo or OmniSharp repo.

Aug 9, 2023 · I cannot get syntax highlighting and intellisense to work in VSCode. I have the SDK installed and the C# extensions (see picture). The project is the webapi template with controllers. As a test I removed the ControllerBase and started to retype it, but there is no suggestion for it. In program.cs all words, apart from comments and "if", are blue.

The C# extension for VS Code is a useful tool and brings code references, usage of additional keybindings and more. But a downside is that it bring its own syntax highlighting that overwrites your theme syntax highlighting by default.