Serilog Syntax Highlighting

A Visual Studio 2022 extension that provides syntax highlighting, brace matching, and navigation features for Serilog message templates in C#/.NET projects.

Features

🎨 Syntax Highlighting

• Property names highlighted in blue: {UserId}, {UserName}
• Destructuring operator @ highlighted in dark goldenrod: {@User}
• Stringification operator $ highlighted in dark goldenrod: {$Settings}
• Format specifiers highlighted in teal: {Timestamp:yyyy-MM-dd}
• Alignment highlighted in red: {Name,10}, {Price,-8}
• Positional parameters highlighted in dark violet: {0}, {1}
• Property braces highlighted in purple for structure

🔗 Navigation

• Navigate from template properties to their corresponding arguments
• Light bulb suggestions when hovering over properties

🔍 Brace Matching

• Highlight matching braces when cursor is positioned on { or }

Supported Serilog Syntax

Works with all Serilog logging methods including:

• Direct Serilog calls: Log.Information(), Log.Debug(), etc.
• ILogger interface: logger.LogInformation(), logger.LogError(), etc.
• ForContext chains: Log.ForContext<T>().Information()
• BeginScope: logger.BeginScope("Operation={Id}", id)
• LogError with exception: logger.LogError(ex, "Message", args)