Visual Studio 2022 displays symbolic colored icons in the gutter next to line numbers, e.g.
I find the icons distracting and not particularly useful. They seem to be related to code structure — e.g. object inheritance and method overrides — which I can already understand from looking at the code.
Is there a way to "declutter my gutter" by hiding these particular icons?
I'm not talking about the code folding icons, or breakpoint icons. These are more or less useful, and less visually distracting.
Visual Studio version used: Preview Version 17.3.0 Preview 2.0
These icons are the "Inheritance Margin" icons. You can disable them by going to Options → Text Editor → C# → Advanced and uncheck the "Show inheritance margin" option:
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I'm using Visual Studio and ReSharper. When clicking a "switch" statement, sometimes a "black hammer" icon is displayed and sometimes it's a yellow lightbulb. Like this:
i'm not sure which one is which, but i think, one of the icons is displayed by visual studio, the other by resharper. (i assume the yellow one is resharper, because it has more funktionality and for design reasons.).
is there a way i can turn off the "black hammer" one alltogether? Or, is there a reproducible way to allways get the same icon? Right now i have no idea why sometimes the hammer comes up and the lightbulb other times.
The 'bulb' and 'hammer' icons are both supplied by ReSharper (see here). You can merge the Visual Studio features with ReSharper's by adjusting the ReSahrper->Options...->Environment->Editor->Visual Studio Features settings.
You can change the icon theme by adjusting ReSharper->Options...->Environment->General
VS2019 16.10.0
.netfx Winform project.
This icon shows the inheritance chain/margin and was added in version 16.10 of Visual Studio. From the 16.10 release notes for Visual Studio:
There is now a visual representation for navigating and inspecting the inheritance chain. This option is off by default so you will need to turn it on in Tools > Options > Text Editor > C# > Advanced and select Show inheritance margin. Enabling inheritance margin will add new icons to the margins representing your code’s implementations and overrides. Clicking on the inheritance margin icon will display inheritance options that you can select to navigate to.
Sure enough, if you navigate to the option in the tools menu, it is at the bottom:
I would check your settings for this - it should be off by default, meaning somehow it was turned on for you. The icon should show the inheritance chain if you click on it. If it isn't, perhaps turn the option off and back on, or restart Visual Studio (it's experimental apparently, so it could be bugged).
I have just starting learning how to make games in Unity, using Visual Studio as the Script Editor, I see other people have their Code colour coded and it also has auto completion.
I've followed some tutorials online but nothing has worked for me.
what do I have to install to get it working?
To add auto-completion you have to add the unity visual studio package. To add this package please type in your windows search field: "Visual Studio Installer" and then click at the visual studio version the button "change". After that, a new window opens in this window click the field with the unity package and then install this package. Now you have auto-completion in Visual Studio.
To add colors look this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_g1TyAGk6Lk& I really recommend this color theme.
The Color Coding of Code can be found on the Tools>Options>Environment>Fonts and Colors. For example, you want to change the color for the Operators (+, -, /, *, etc.), you would need to find it in the Display items List and edit (found on the Right Side of the Display Items) the color of the foreground (the text itself), it's background or whether it is displayed in bold or not.
I believe that auto completion or IntelliSense is on by default as for what I have Experienced in switching from MonoDevelop to Visual Studio 2017.
Actually, i think you're looking at a popular visual studio plugin called Resharper;
https://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/
It also has a Unity3D plugin (for resharper) which adds full support. That's were the coloring and extra intellisense comes from.
You can see some sample pictures here; https://github.com/JetBrains/resharper-unity
I am "attempting" to use the image editor in Visual Studio 2013 to fix a gif file. The "documentation" references an image menu which is missing. I am also attempting to set the foreground and background colors.
Does anyone have any advice on how to do this?
The image editor has been replaced in VS2013, it no longer uses a dedicated menu. So whatever documentation you are using is surely outdated. The VS2013 specific documentation is here.
Pick, say, the Pen tool from the toolbar. The Properties window lets you set the fore- and background colors.
I downloaded the free CodeRush Xpress version to try it. Is there a way to change the colors it uses for it's highlighting and line drawing? ie the matching braces. I have a dark color scheme and my monitor I have VS on must suck because I can't see the lines. Yet on the LCD I can. Is there a way to change the colors?
I use CodeRush Xpress 9.2. It is possible to configure some colors used for highlighting in the Options menu of CodeRush Xpress. You can find the menu in Visual Studio under DevExpress -> Options. Go to the Painting sub-item of the Editor item to control some of the colors used (among them Navigation Fields, Navigation Links and Text fields).
If the DevExpress menu doesn't appear in your Visual Studio installation, just press Alt+Ctrl+Shift+O to directly go to DevExpress Options. Or, if you permanently want the DevExpress menu entry in Visual Studio, set the following registry key and restart it:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Developer Express\CodeRush for VS\9.2]
"HideMenu"=dword:00000000
This works at least with Visual Studio 2005 and 2008.
Just found this online... You can open their control menu with this key combination: ctrl+alt+shift+o
i'm using VS 2008 for the record & CodeRush xpress 9.2. i didnt see a menu in Visual Studio anywhere and i didnt find that registry setting either.
If you're using a 64bit machine the path will be different:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Developer Express\CodeRush for VS