Emphasize!

A Visual Studio extension that shows emphasis in your comments.

Sick of boring comments in your code? This extension will highlight words and phrases that you add emphasis to so that they stand out.

Examples

Types of Emphasis

Three types of emphasis are supported:

You can even nest the different types of emphasis.

If you prefer to use markdown-style bold and italic formatting, enable the option in Tools -> Options -> Emphasize. When that option is enabled, the types of formatting are:

Language Support

Works in all language that Visual Studio highlights comments in, including:

• C#
• VB.NET
• JavaScript
• TypeScript
• CoffeeScript
• SQL
• XML
• HTML
• CSS
• PowerShell
• and many more!

Customization

If you're not happy with the colors, you can change this via Visual Studio's Fonts and Colors options. Just look for these display items:

• Comment - Bold Span
• Comment - Bold, Code Span
• Comment - Bold, Italic Span
• Comment - Bold, Italic, Code Span
• Comment - Code Span
• Comment - Italic Span
• Comment - Italic, Code Span

Note: The background color of emphasized code spans is always partially transparent.

Limitations

Emphasized phrases that span multiple lines are not currently supported.