If you use Microsoft’s Visual Studio IDE for development and write any shader code (GLSL, HLSL, CG, etc) then you definitely should check out NShader. It’s a free addon that adds syntax highlight for those languages, making Visual Studio a much more fully functional IDE for those who work in shader languages. It does have a few limitations:
- The CG syntax highlighter is using the same HLSL syntax highlighter (they have similar keywords).
- No syntax analyzing and checking. NShader only use a basic tokenizer to extract keywords. Future versions may include syntax analyser.
- No braces/bracket matching
- No completion
- No formatting
But given how poor Visual Studio’s existing support is, it’s a huge benefit.
via NShader – HLSL – GLSL – CG – Shader Syntax Highlighter AddIn for Visual Studio.
