
To do this you need Microsoft Visual 2008 edition and I see you already have it. I downloaded both of them off of the Microsoft website. I have a temporary solution to this problem that I figured out because I have Visual C++ 2008 express and Visual C++ 2010 express. If you find a specific bug in the extension, please file a new Connect bug so we can investigate in more detail.īrittany Behrens | Program Manager | Visual Studio Platform - Editor | The Visual Studio Blog | on Twitter If you have questions or comments about color printing, feel free to post them here or in the comments section of the VS Blog In fact, this extension was created largely in response to reports like yours. You can also download the Color Printing extension directly from the Visual Studio Gallery at

More details about the extension and its functionality are available on the Visual Studio Blog at The ability to print code with syntax coloring, as you could in earlier versions of Visual Studio.

I'm writing to let you know that although this isn’t built into VS 2010, we just released a free Color Printing extension today. Thanks again for your feedback about the absence of color printing from Visual Studio 2010. I'm running: Windows Vista Ultimate 圆4 SP2, Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate Beta 2 (though the problem was in Beta 1, too), and Visual Studio 2008 Professional, all with the latest updates. Is this common, or is it just me? If it's not just me, was this intentional or is it a bug? I don't know if it happens with any of the languages other than C++. yet I can't get color coded source to print. I've gone through the fonts and colors settings in the options, and all the settings for the printer are set to the same thing that the text editor is set to. comments are green, reserved words are blue, text strings or characters are red, etc.) When I print something out of VS2010 everything is black and white save for the line numbers. In Visual Studio 2008, when I would tell it to print a source document, I would get a page off the printer that looked exactly like what I had on the screen. With that said, I'm trying to figure out how to print out source code with the syntax coloring. I apologize in advanced if this has been covered somewhere already, but I can't seem to find it if it is.
