It is almost a year since I first released the Color Coder extension. I haven’t spent much time on it and planed to do it once it hit a certain amount of users. But recently with Visual Studio update 15.7 the extension didn’t work properly. So I fixed it and made other improvements to it too while I was at it.

The problem that was causing the issue was some changes to ClassifiedSpan in Roslyn compiler. This version doesn’t have any new features and is more of a patch release. But it has a lot of performance improvements. Here’s the list of changes in this version.

Fix the compatibility issue with VS 15.7

Remove the predefined font sizes

Change the way Color Coder colors the Interfaces, Classes, Enums, Namespances, etc. Which make it faster

Refactoring of overall solution which makes it easier to read and easier to change