Override text rendering in Visual Studio?

Question

I want to customize the way the text is rendered in Microsoft's Visual Studio text viewer. The goal is to implement my own complicated algorithm for whitespace handling.

Note: I've already written "add-ins" to automate some tasks (include guards, copyright insertion in the file's header etc...). However, as far as I understand, "add-ins" cannot be used to override the kind of functionality I need.

Is it possible to override the default text rendering? If yes, where do I start?

(Visual studio 2005 is preferred.)

@DeadMG: well, you're right. Just wanted to specify that it doesn't matter what language to use... — Yakov Galka, May 24 '11 at 08:32
@Voters as 'too localized': I find it more general than this http://stackoverflow.com/questions/84209/adding-a-guideline-to-the-editor-in-visual-studio . — Yakov Galka, May 24 '11 at 08:41

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited Aug 09 '21 at 15:04

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You should look at Visual Studio language services. Try Language Services on MSDN

edited Aug 09 '21 at 15:04

Jackdaw

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answered May 24 '11 at 08:23

Chris Spicer

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+1 Apparently this is the way to go. Unfortunately I can't find a customization point I need. – Yakov Galka May 24 '11 at 08:54
I'm afraid I've only dabbled in language services, so can't really give any further pointers. – Chris Spicer May 24 '11 at 09:25

Override text rendering in Visual Studio?

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