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The color, the sharpness of the text, everything seems better in VS Code than in Visual Studio.
Is there any settings I can play with, or this is just how it is?
I found this question while I was trying to solve this problem myself, same font looking much more readable in VS Code compared to Visual Studio.
What worked for me in Visual Studio 2019 is extension called Text Sharp.
I use Consolas, and these settings finally made the font look the same in both editors:
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I recently migrated from Visual Studio 2013 to 2015. It was a visually satisfactory transition. But suddenly one of my favorite feature disappeared.
Before:
And after:
It is not colorful anymore. I played around with text editor options, fonts and styles, but couldn't figure it out. Does anyone know how to bring it back?
Actually I'm working with both versions and I love the Dark Style of VS2012.
I know there is a lot of plugins for VS2010 that make it like VS2012, such icons, IDE color and so on.
I'm refering to the color theme ".vssettings" file format, I've being looking another posts and I cannot found any related to this.
Anyone knows?
Thanks in advance!
Import the following style from here
http://studiostyl.es/schemes/c-dark-scheme-for-use-with-expression-dark-theme
Anybody knows how to use the Inconsolata font in Visual studio 2010? While working nicely in Visual studio 2008, in 2010 it doesn't show up in the font selection box - presumably because it is not in TTF format...
It seems that I've found more or less working solution:
http://dmitrimaximov.blogspot.com/2010/08/visual-studio-2010-vs-inconsolata-font.html
Edit: see Dmitry's comment below for updated links.
Google's TTF offering of Inconsolata (tested revision) appears in my VS2010 Fonts list and allows me to change sizes.
EDIT: See user1151080's comment below.
I've worked with Visual Studio 2008 and editing XAML was really painful because the designer reloaded very slowly. Now I have installed Visual Studio 2010 and it seems to me that the XAML editor + Designer haven't changed much.
For example in order to force designer to change a color in my control I have to close the xaml file and open it again.
Is it just my problem?
I've tried this solution: Visual Studio 2008 Xaml Editor not working / disappeared but it didn't help.
Are there any better tools for Visual Studio to edit XAML?
Thanks!
EDIT: Compiling forces redrawing of the designer but my solution is quite large now and it takes a lot of time.
I run 2010 on an old core 2 duo (~1.2ghz) laptop with 4gb of memory and the xaml editor is fine.
If you've got a MASSIVE xaml document you might want to think about breaking it into user controls to simplify the document. Also, think about the machine you're running. If it doesn't have at least 3gb of memory you're going to be fighting with the disk. Memory is cheap, make sure you have as much as possible.
I didn't experience the same problem, instead I saw that Visual Studio 2010 is faster than its previous version to load a XAML into the designer.
Btw, I suggest you to show only the XAML, either collapsing the designer window or pressing ESC during the loading: the first time is slow, but other times is faster.
Hope this helps.
If you can, get hold of Expression. For Visual Studio 2008 it was a much better visual XAML editor.
I know a lot of what it does was incorporated into Visual Studio 2010, so there might not be a lot of difference between the two now.
I really like Visual studio. I think it is awesome IDE ever been made for developers. But color scheme in new VS2010 is really ugly, so the first thing i'd like to do after install is to change its color palette. I googled how to do this and found VS extension by Matthew Johnson [MSFT].
If you know another way to change color palette in VS2010, please let me know.
You can use the Visual Studio Color Theme Editor to make changes directly within Visual Studio, which will allow you to change the theme/color of the actual Visual Studio shell itself.
To change the theme/color of the editor, you can browse themes (created by others) at Studio Styles, which also allows you to create a theme online and then import it into Visual Studio.
You can create, import and export VS themes in your browser! http://studiostyles.info/
I suppose It should work and for VS 2010
Let me know if it works...
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