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Version 3.9 (2018-03-18)

Version 3.8 (2018-01-07)

Version 3.7 (2017-12-13)

  • Adding new options to control flow-control / visibility / query keyword highlighting
  • Bug fixes

Version 3.6 (2017-08-06)

  • Added back current line highlight feature
  • Added options to export/import settings
  • Added option to export current color settings as a theme to a JSON file, and import a theme file.
  • Support for JavaScript template literals
  • Bug fixes

Version 3.5 (2017-04-23)

  • Removed Current Line Highlight feature (not needed since available in VS2012+ natively)
  • Removed Plain Text Completion feature (not widely used)
  • Added option to support disabling highlight of rainbow braces while keeping Ctrl key highlight of current scope
  • Added support for HLSL Tools for Visual Studio, Stream Analytics Tools for Visual Studio and improved support for existing languages
  • Various bug fixes and minor improvements

Version 3.4 (2016-11-16)

  • Add support for custom configuration location
  • Add support for VS "15".
  • Fix various bugs

Version 3.3 (2016-07-16)

  • Add option to highlight each brace kind separately (per-brace rainbow)
  • Add support for U-SQL language

Version 3.2 (2016-06-08)

  • Fixes to C# 6.0 string interpolation handling
  • Fix performance issue in the output window
  • Colors used by Viasfora can now be edited from the options dialog pages

Version 3.1 (2016-04-26)

  • Add option to colorize XML namespace prefixes in closing tags in a separate color
  • Highlighting of format specifiers in C# and F#
  • Bug fixes related to handling C# 6.0 string interpolation
  • Bug fixes related to rainbow highlight and column/row hilighting.

Version 3 (2016-04-06)

  • Updated branding with new image
  • Support Visual Studio "15.0" preview
  • Telemetry improvements
  • Split General option page into multiple pages
  • Reorganized and cleaned up code.

Version 2.9

  • Add support for R Tools for Visual Studio

Version 2.8

  • Add option to enable/disable italics in flow control keywords
  • Fix bug that caused C/C++ format specifiers being highlighted in C# code
  • Implementing telemetry

Version 2.7

  • Disable italics in flow control keywords
  • Add support for ASP.NET 5 Razor tag helpers
  • Improved support for C# 6 interpolated strings
  • Other bug fixes

Version 2.6

  • Add highlighting for C/C++ format specifiers
  • Fix support for Node.js tools for VS2015
  • Highlight {} in VB expressions
  • Viasfora.xml settings file should store settings in culture-neutral settings
  • Other bug fixes

Version 2.5

  • Support for PowerShell Tools for VS
  • Mark extra braces in red/error
  • Improve default color for escape sequences
  • Add option to disable viasfora features per-language
  • Support for XLang/S

Version 2.4

  • Improvements for CodeRush compatibility
  • Improvements for the Razon editor and Roslyn-based editors in VS2015
  • Bug fixes

Version 2.3

  • New Feature: Outline Selection command
  • Bug fixes

Version 2.2

  • Extend Rainbow with configurable depth
  • Updated default colors for rainbow braces
  • Block current line highlight if VS2012+ is enabled
  • Bug fixes

Version 2.1

  • Added option to disable Rainbow ToolTips
  • Bug fixing release

Version 2.0

  • New Feature: Rainbow Tooltips
  • New Feature: Rainbow Previous/Next commands
  • New Feature: Text Obfuscation
  • New Feature: Show Text View Roles in developer margin
  • Improvements on F# for various features
  • Bug fixes

Version 1.9

  • Additional setting options
  • Support for CSS, SASS, LESS and VBScript
  • Initial support for VS "14"
  • Bug fixes

Version 1.8.1

  • New Feature: Highlight current rainbow scope
  • Bug fixes

Version 1.8

  • New Feature: Auto-expand collapsible regions
  • New Feature: Bold as Italics
  • Bug fixes

Version 1.7

  • Support for PowerShell editor in VS2013.2
  • Plain-Text completion
  • Bug fixes

Version 1.6.1

  • Bug fixes
  • Add close (x) button to developer margin

Version 1.6

  • Support for JSON editor in VS2013.2
  • Highlight user outlines in the marker margin
  • Introduce extension developer margin
  • More bug fixes

Version 1.5.1

  • Bug fixing release

Version 1.5

  • Highlight current column
  • User-defined outlining regions
  • Bugfix: handle double quotes on verbatim strings
  • Bugfix: SQL multi-line strings
  • Modelines: support all text files, add noet support, and modelines after the first line

Version 1.4

  • Python support
  • Initial Modeline support
  • Various bugfixes

Version 1.3.1

  • Fix NullReferenceException on MVC Razor views

Version 1.3

  • Cleaned up categories in the Options dialog
  • TypeScript support
  • SQL Support
  • Implemented Presentation Mode
  • Various bug fixes and performance work

Version 1.2

  • Substantial performance enhancements!
  • F# support
  • Rainbow parentheses support for VB
  • Fixes for various exceptions and corner cases
  • Renamed all Fonts and Options entries to have a common prefix (Viasfora)

Version 1.1.1

  • Fix bug that caused the text to lose colors and then redraw when modifying the document, caused by interaction between components

Version 1.1

  • Implemented Rainbow Parentheses
  • Fix highlight of closing XML tags for VS2013 new HTML editor

Version 1.0

  • Ported Keyword Classifier
  • Ported BetterXml
  • Ported Line Adornments
  • Fix exception moving to top of XML documents
  • Add configuration dialogs
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