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SQL Syntax Highlighting

SQL Syntax Highlighting

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Adds basic SQL syntax highlighting (keywords, functions and variables) to string literals.
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This Visual Studio 2010 extension adds basic SQL syntax highlighting (keywords, functions and variables) to string literals.

Currently the following keywords are supported:

  • select, insert, delete, update,
  • into, values, truncate, distinct, top, with,
  • from, join, inner join, outer join, left outer join, right outer join, left join, right join, cross join,
  • union, except,
  • where, like, between, having, exists,
  • order by, asc, desc, over, group by, 
  • on, in, is, not, as, and, or, all,
  • create, alter, drop,
  • table, function, procedure, view, schema,
  • declare, set,
  • if, begin, then, else, end, for, while, null,
  • transaction, commit, rollback,
  • exec, return, returns, print, use,
  • bigint, numeric, bit, smallint, decimal, smallmoney, int, tinyint, money, float, real,
  • date, datetimeoffset, datetime2, smalldatetime, datetime, time, timestamp,
  • char, varchar, text, nchar, nvarchar, ntext, 
  • binary, varbinary, image, 
  • cursor, hierarchyid, uniqueidentifier, sql_variant, xml

And the following functions:

  • count, count_big, sum, min, max, avg,
  • abs, newid, rand, isnull, coalesce,
  • left, right, substring, ltrim, rtrim, upper, lower, charindex, len, stuff,
  • getdate, dateadd, datediff, datepart, datename,
  • convert, cast
  • row_number

 

The plan is to add support SQL query detection to prevent highlighting string literals which aren't queries.

To change the colors go to Tools > Options > Fonts and Colors (Environment) -> SQL Syntax Highlighting.

 

Please note that this is an experimental release to get feedback

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