IDE underlining custom attributes

Question

I have a custom attribute...

[System.AttributeUsage(System.AttributeTargets.All)]
public class Refactor : System.Attribute
{
    private string _message;

    public Refactor()
    {
        _message = string.Empty;
    }

    public Refactor(string message)
    {
        _message = message;
    }               
}

Applied to

[Refactor("this should be less rubbish")]
public virtual void RubbishMethod()    
{    
…    
}

Now when someone makes a call to RubbishMethod I'd like the IDE (vs2008) to underline that call in a deep brown colour, similar to if I mark as Obsolete you get a green wave line. Is this possible? I've been racking my brain and hitting the google but I can't find how and where to do this.

Duplicate: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/154109/custom-compiler-warnings (short answer: no, `Obsolete` is magic) — AakashM, Apr 08 '10 at 10:59
You can *possibly* do it by writing your own IDE add-ins, but the amount of effort involved would be huge. — Marc Gravell, Apr 08 '10 at 11:28

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 16 '11 at 19:35

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You'd have to write a VS extension. You would need to create a Classifier. The Ook! language extension has a good sample of making classifiers.

answered Aug 16 '11 at 19:35

justin.m.chase

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