NShader is a Visual Studio 2008 / 2010 extension that brings syntax highlighting for common shading languages: GLSL (OpenGL), HLSL (Direct3D) and Cg.

NShader does its by looking at the file extensions:

• .fx, .hlsl, .vsh, .psh files : HLSL syntax highlighter.


• .glsl, .frag, .vert, .fp, .vp, .geom files : GLSL syntax highlighter.


• .cg, .cgfx, files : CG syntax highlighter.