JSON Javascript highlighting in Visual Studio 2010

Question

Does anybody know how to get VS 2010 to use the same highlighting for a file called .JSON as it uses for a JavaScript file? Just working on a client site and they've named all their JSON template files as .JSON, with the result that I just get a plain old text editor when I open it in Visual Studio. Any suggestions? I'm sure there must be an option somewhere that would do it but I can't find it so far...

Answer 1

Tools -> Options -> Text Editor -> File Extension

End your extension 'json' and select 'Script Editor' and click 'add'.

Re-open any json documents for it to take affect.

Answer 2

Another option is to use Text Highlighter (extention for Visual Studio 2010), which offers syntax highlighting for the following text formats:

• .json (also offer syntax validation)
• .bat
• .cmd
• .ini
• .txt
• .log