Visual Studio 2005 not coloring C++ files correctly

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steveA - 19 Feb 2008 14:07 GMT

I have a solution with several projects. Some C++ files are used in multiple
projects that have different Preprocessor definitions. The Editor seems to
use the definitions of the first project (?) to set the coloring. Thus some
code is greyed out when it shouldn't be. Whose bug is this?

/steveA

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Alex Blekhman - 19 Feb 2008 14:20 GMT

> I have a solution with several projects. Some C++ files are
> used in multiple
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> coloring. Thus some
> code is greyed out when it shouldn't be. Whose bug is this?

I think that VS uses defenitions of currently active project.

HTH
Alex

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steveA - 21 Feb 2008 14:04 GMT

> > I have a solution with several projects. Some C++ files are
> > used in multiple
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> HTH
> Alex

That's what I would have thought also but it doesn't appear to. In fact, if
I edit the condition on a #if, the coloring momentarily changes to dark and
then goes back to grey! This solution originally came from vs2003 (from VC6)
so I don't know if there is some vestige in the sln and vcproj files that is
causing this.

/steveA

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