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| MSVC Comment Colors Submitted by

Here's a tip that a lot of people probably already know. On the other hand I've been using MSVC since version 4 and just realized that I could do this.
Under Tools->Options, under the Format tab if you pick 'Comment' in the Colors box you can set both the foreground and background colours. I find it helps to make code 100x more readable.
Attached is a screen shot:
Sean Quinn

The zip file viewer built into the Developer Toolbox made use of the zlib library, as well as the zlibdll source additions.

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