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Structural Highlighting

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The Structural Highlighting options page enables you to specify the Structural Highlighting options.

opStructuralHighlighting

The options page includes the following options:

Enabled

Specifies Structural Highlighting availability.

 

Show connections with

Specifies the direction of lines connecting block bounds. You can choose one of the following values:

  • Horizontal and vertical lines

    opshHorizontalAndVertical

  • A single vertical line

    opshSingleVertical

  • Diagonal lines

    opshDiagonal

 

Connect tags centers

Specifies the way a highlighting line connects to an xml tag. See the following screenshots:

  • On

    opshCentreTagsOn

  • Off

    opshCentreTagsOff

 

Default color, Default opacity, and Default thickness

These options specify what a highlighting line looks like by default.

 

Elements

Lists the elements available for structural highlighting. Use this list to customize display options for any element.

The Elements list includes two tabbed pages:

  • General Elements - includes C#, C++, and Visual Basic structural elements.
  • Xml Elements - includes XML tags. The important feature of this page is the ability to add or remove custom tags.

    To add a tag, type its name and click Add Xml Element.

    opshXmlElements

 

Custom settings overrides

This section includes options for a selected element of the Elements list:

  • Suppress connecting lines for this element - check this option to disable highlighting of an element.
  • Custom color, Custom opacity, and Custom thickness - use these options to override the default values for the selected element.

Note

This product is designed for outdated versions of Visual Studio. Although Visual Studio 2015 is supported, consider using the CodeRush extension with Visual Studio 2015 or higher.