Can ANTLR lexers/parsers be used for VS syntax highlighting and Error List?

Question

I'm happily developing a language in ANTLR 4.4 / ANTLR4CS, and I'd like to start integrating my language into an IDE. The natural place for me feels like integrating it into Visual Studio. It occurs to me that someone might have figured out a general way to plug an ANTLR lexer into the Visual Studio syntax highlighting system, or ANTLR parsers into an MSBuild task such that errors appear in the Visual Studio error list.

Is there any kind of starting point, base package, plugin system, or similar which lets you integrate an ANTLR4CS language with Visual Studio's language support mechanisms?

Alternatively, has anyone had any success building, say, a Sublime Text build system / language def automatically from their grammar?

Answer 1

@Lucas Trzesniewski wrote:

I did this by reparsing the whole file every time, doing it on a line-by line basis was too much of a PITA for my needs (and our DSL files are small so it works fine).

I don't know if it'll be suitable for your needs, but you can implement a single file generator from a VS extension. The Generate method takes a IVsGeneratorProgress parameter which lets you report errors easily.