I'm developing some VBScript using Visual Studio 2010. The native support for this language isn't great, so going forwards I'm hoping to look into taking advantage of language services / VS Extensions to allow me to improve support for these languages. For the moment however I just want to make my life simpler by adding a couple of features:
- Allow the VS Task List to recognise my 'todo: comments
- Allow c# like #region...#endregion functionality to make it easy to break the script up into more easily readable blocks (to comply with VBScript I'd stick an apostrophe before the hash to make it a comment).
Is there a simple way to do this through configuration in VS, or do I have to create an entire language service to get this functionality? What I'm asking may be impossible; but thought it worth asking on the off chance.
Thanks in advance.
My bet is you could do the tasklist stuff with a simple extension: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/163ba701%28v=vs.80%29.aspx
But to do the #region behavior I'm fairly certain you need a simple stripped out Language Service to get to the Source's AuthoringSink http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.visualstudio.package.authoringsink.addhiddenregion.aspx and http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.visualstudio.package.authoringsink%28v=vs.90%29.aspx