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Torsten Mueller - 10 Jun 2005 07:09 GMT

I have a file that contains C++ but it's an input file for an Oracle
preprocessor. It includes some embedded SQL ... The extension of the
file is .pc what causes Visual Studio to show it just in black and
white. I want to see it as C++.

In former times it was possible to define such special files in a
configuration file called langext.dat located in a bin directory. MS
itself does this for the STL headers having no extension at all and I
know that this worked even with my own files some years ago. But when
I insert my filename today into langext.dat it doesn't work. It
remains just black and white. Does anybody use this feature? Is there
a trick?

T.M.

My Visual Studio says about it's version:

Microsoft Developement Environment 2003 Version 7.1.3088
Microsoft Visual C++ .NET 69462-270-0000007-18723

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Tom Dacon - 12 Jun 2005 04:54 GMT

Look around on the MS site for something called Powertoys for Visual Studio
.Net. There's a little application called VSTweak that will let you add new
file name extensions and map them to pre-existing extensions for syntax
coloring.

Tom Dacon
Dacon Software Consulting

>I have a file that contains C++ but it's an input file for an Oracle
> preprocessor. It includes some embedded SQL ... The extension of the
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> Microsoft Developement Environment 2003 Version 7.1.3088
> Microsoft Visual C++ .NET 69462-270-0000007-18723

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