VSDoxyHighlighter is an extension for Visual Studio 2022 that provides syntax highlighting, IntelliSense and quick info tooltips for Doxygen style comments in C/C++.

If you like the extension, please give it a star on GitHub and rate on the Visual Studio marketplace!

Syntax highlighting

The following two images show the default colors used for light and dark color themes by the extension (they are configurable!):

To contrast it, here is the default display without this extension:

IntelliSense

Typing an @ or \ in a comment displays an autocomplete box listing all Doxygen commands, including documentation:

Additional autocompletion is provided for the arguments of the Doxygen commands \param, \tparam, \p and \a: The extension lists the parameters and/or template parameters of the next function, class, struct, macro or alias template.

Quick info tooltips

Hovering with the mouse over Doxygen commands or one of their parameters will display their documentation as a tooltip. Hyperlinks in the text are preserved, allowing to quickly open related webpages.

More information

You can enable and disable the highlighting, IntelliSense and quick info tooltips in //, ///, //!, /*, /** and /*! style comments separately.

For documentation and more information, please head over to the GitHub page.
Release notes for each version can be also found on GitHub.