How to write a Visual Studio extension for a template or markup language that supports embedded code snippets

Question

Is it possible to write an extension for Visual Studio 2010 that provides syntax highlighting, intellisense, outlining, etc for a custom template or markup language

Answer 1

you can write your own editor extension, see this article : http://www.devx.com/VS_2010/Article/45058

And to understand how it works : http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd885240(v=VS.100).aspx

Do research about "Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) "

You can download an exemple for the Ook langage here