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

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:

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.