I'm using the Color Theme Designer extension for Visual Studio 2019 v. 16.7.5 (link to extension here). With it, I've tweaked one of the themes to be a little pleasing for my eyes.
But, I'm stuck with one particular element on the main window - the Name (caption ?) of the current opened solution which is right next to a Search pane. It gets some white-ish background, but that I really don't want. See:
I woul'd like it to appear with the same background color as the rest of the window.
The original Dark Theme has it set to black, so It has to be possible:
I went intuivitelly through all possible properties of the theme - like *Title, *Caption etc. but I just can't find the right one. Can anyone help me ?
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I would like to change the background color in Visual Studio when there are no code window. Basically the default background of the window. Here is a picture...
The arrow is pointing to the area I would like to color. Any thoughts?
If you want to stay in dark mode and try to change only some areas of color. You should try to this extension. Have a nice day.
Hamit Enes pointed me in the right direction. There is an extension that let's you create themes that have a much wider and clearer set of color selections. While I could not find what I needed in the VS tools, the theme editor led me right to it. Turns out what I need was in the "Main Window, Active Background".
I really like the Zenburn theme. As such, I downloaded this theme from studio styles and imported it as settings. Everything seems to have configured correctly except one thing - the line number separator.
If you look at the link above, you'll see there's no line between the line numbers and the code. Just a nice space. When I installed the theme I get this baby-puke-green line separator that is really off-putting:
I have installed the color editor plugin but I can't seem to find a way to edit this part of the theme. I really like the overall theme, and everything else seems to work correctly, I just really want this awful color gone (I don't even think it's in the theme!).
How can I change/remove this separator so it looks more like the image on https://studiostyl.es?
If you are using Color Theme Editor for Visual Studio 2017 you can just search for line number for the leftmost puke green and for track changes to change the vertical bar in yellow or green by default which is Track Changes before save and Track Changes after save respectively and change the foreground and background color that way and save your modifications as a custom theme.
You don't need any theme editor though. The built-in options dialog has a setting for all of those as well.
I find the dark theme much easier to concentrate in, but I think I mucked something up a while ago and it turned the dark theme text editor into a monstrosity:
I tried clicking reset to defaults in this menu:
But it appears that that menu does not control this specific part because it did not change it back (Or god forbid it's supposed to look like this)
Does anyone know the solution for this?
It looks like you have an extension installed that is providing that coloring. Go to Tools->Extensions and Updates and check if there's anything about alternating line colors (perhaps this extension), and disable or uninstall it.
I'm using a dark theme in visual studio 2010, and have just set up Resharper's colours to fit that.
However, when I now use either the Inspection Results preview or the Find Usages preview, it has picked up the dark background colour setting but none of the other colour settings. This makes it rather difficult to read, black on dark gray!
I have looked through the Resharper section of the visual studio colour settings, but I can't find one for the background of a preview window specifically, has anyone else found out how to change this please?
(Edit: I have no problem with setting just the background colour back to light gray/white, especially if it's not going to pick up the other colours, so I'm clarifying that even a fairly complicated method of setting just this one colour would be fine.)
I was getting an all-white after changing to a dark theme in the Find Results but change the follow and worked for me.
Tools -> Options -> Environment -> Fonts and Colors -> Definition Window Background
If you're using VS2012, try switching to VS's built-in Dark theme to fix this problem.
When customizing my Visual Studio color scheme I am often confounded by the "Fonts and Colors" area.
Often, I want to change a specific color, say: the color used for TODO lines, but I need to read through 100s of color names just to figure out what that is. Often I am unable to figure what what color is what.
Is there any documentation out there that lists which colors are which?
Or even better, is there a plugin that allow me to highlight text in the editor and change the scheme of the selected text (figure out what color/s it is)?
I totally agree that this list is messy.
I personally find the Studio Styles page helpful to create Visual Studio color schemes.
If you click on Create a scheme and hover over the different code elements it will show you a tooltip with the naming of that item to find it in Visual Studio (like Keyword, User Types(Delegates), Brace Matching(Rectangle) etc.):
Of course you could also just build the complete theme then on their page and export it. It also provides an import functionality to change your pre-existing Visual Studio scheme directly there.
Anyhow, I would also love to have an extension to do so directly in Visual Studio ;)
Nice question.
I think the answer is no.
Point it out at the place where they monitor.