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IL Support

Jean-Philippe Leconte

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Provides syntax highlighting for the IL (Intermediate Language) and project templates for C#, F# and Visual Basic that support embedding and calling IL code.
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IL Support 2.5

IL Support is an extension for Visual Studio 2017 and 2019 that provides syntax highlighting for the IL (Intermediate Language) and project templates for C#, F# and Visual Basic that support embedding and calling IL code.

IL Support is licensed under the MIT License. See the project page on GitHub.

Syntax Highlighting

IL Support includes a simple syntax highlighter for IL files (.il). It adds 3 configurable custom classifications (Instruction, Directive and Directive (Security)), in addition to using the standard classifications.

Project Templates

IL Support includes multiple project templates that support embedding and calling IL code in addition to another language (C#, F# and Visual Basic). The generated projects have no dependencies and should build on any Visual Studio 2010/2012/2013/2015/2017/2019 installation, even without this extension installed. They support all the project properties and configurations, build incrementally, and even allow breakpoints and debugging step by step in both the main language and the IL.

Every non-empty project contains a simple example showing how to embed IL.

The following projects are included:

  • Visual C#
    • Empty Project with IL Support
    • Class Library with IL Support
    • Portable Class Library with IL Support
    • Console Application with IL Support
    • Windows Forms Application with IL Support
    • WPF Application with IL Support
  • Visual F#
    • F# Application with IL Support
    • F# Library with IL Support
    • F# Portable Library with IL Support
  • Visual Basic
    • Empty Project with IL Support
    • Class Library with IL Support
    • Portable Class Library with IL Support
    • Console Application with IL Support
    • Windows Forms Application with IL Support
    • WPF Application with IL Support
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