Overview

Highlighting styles govern how SyntaxEditor text is rendered and can be used to create entire themes for various languages.

Highlighting Styles

Highlighting styles store information about how text should be rendered within a SyntaxEditor, including fore/background, font styles, and more.

See the Highlighting Styles topic for more information.

Highlighting Style Registries

Highlighting style registries provide a mapping from classification types to highlighting styles. They tell SyntaxEditor how the various ranges of classified text should appear within the text area.

See the Highlighting Style Registries topic for more information.

TextStylePreview Control

The TextStylePreview control is a small control that is used on options dialogs to show the end user a preview of how an IHighlightingStyle will render.

See the TextStylePreview Control topic for more information.

Dark Themes

SyntaxEditor supports the ability to easily switch between light and dark themes.

All of the default styles registered by DisplayItemClassificationTypeProvider and BuiltInClassificationTypeProvider as well as the built-in language implementations are designed to support either light or dark themes. However, any custom language implementations may require additional configuration to support a dark theme since most styles intended for use on a light background are not very appealing on a dark background.

See the Dark Themes topic for more information.