Archive for November, 2007

Building a Syntax Highlighter: Part II

Ok so you’ve seen that which is my quest, now for a little more slightly boring, yet more useful, background information on how I’m tackling this problem.
First of all, I’ll point out that currently the state of the ’syntax aware editor’ industry is pretty sad. (This is not the case in the world of [...]

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Annoying Me Softly, the RichTextBox

This is a side note to my parser project. I’m using a rich text box to display colorized syntax, and it’s really annoying me now that when I set the .Rtf property with a trailing newline (\par) the .Text property pretends I didn’t put it there. In fact, the .Text property seems to [...]

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Building a Syntax Highlighter using Gold Parser Builder: Part I

Here we are. Finally something useful again on my blog, instead of some drivel about the crap I’ve been working on with no code samples. This won’t be a HOWTO from start to end but rather a narration of my efforts on the subject. I intend to have it working at the end, so [...]

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Early Christmas this year!

Visual Studio 2008 drops this week as an RTM. I’m going to be checking the website about every 3 hours now. Whee!

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