I just got my new MacBook and I downloaded Visual Studio Community 2019 for Mac, but I can not enable the dark mode and the white one literally kills my eyes in Night.
The usual way to do this doesn't work for me, because there isn't dark mode in the Preferences. (Preferences/Environment/Visual Style/User Interface theme)
Menu ➡️ Visual Studio ➡️ Preferences
I use Visual Studio Code. If you go to the Code menu item and click on preferences. When the preferences open the menu's show the items in the figure below.
At the bottom of the preferences menu panal is a option for 'Color Theme'. Click on Color Theme and select a dark theme from the collection of themes shown..
Visual Studio 2019 - Click Tools > Options
Go to Environment > General tab and select the colour theme from the dropdown
-- I've just noticed that you're using a Mac. The below was on Windows 10. I'm not sure if this will be different on a Mac. --
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I broke text editor visual of visual studio.it is funny but i couldn't restore it.Could you please help me to restore back?
You can show the pictures to understand the problem
Original
Disrupted
the original one shows pop-up window like this;
For Visual Studio 2015:
Option 1
Tools >
Fonts and Colors >
Select "Use Defaults" on the top right corner
press "OK"
Option 2
Open Visual Studio and Go to Tools -> Import and Export Settings
Select Reset all Settings and complete the wizard
Restart VS instance
It's a long time that I use VS and I have fully customized its environment. Now I have to use IntelliJ. It's completely unfamiliar for me. I want to export VS short keys to IntelliJ. Is there any way to do that? I'd appreciate if someone can help me.
I use Visual Studio 2015 Ultimate and IntelliJ IDEA 15 Ultimate.
I use Resharper in Visual Studio. Does it help?
You can go to File | Settings, select the Keymap item in the left part of the dialog, and select "Visual Studio" in the Keymap combo box. This should give you keyboard shortcuts in IntelliJ IDEA that are similar to the default settings in Visual Studio.
To the right of the Keymap combo box, there is a small gears button that allows you to duplicate a keymap. After duplication, you can change keyboard shortcuts for almost every action and even add more shortcuts than what you get by default. This way, you can even add (most of) your personal customizations from Visual Studio to IntelliJ.
File > Settings > Keymap select Visual Studio from dropdown
For now, just install vscode keymap from plugin store:
And there is a VSCode keymap, many thanks to the uploder!
We can change font for VS IDE items in the Options\Environments\Fonts and Colors dialog. However, I still cannot find how to do that for the Properties pane. Can anybody help me with that?
Working mainly with VS 2013 Professional or Community Editions.
Use > tools > options > Fonts and Colors (Show settings drop down)
Environment font for menus etc
Locals Window for properties window
You must restart the IDE to make the properties window changes
I've tried to make my Visual Studio more beautyful, so I downloaded Son of Obsidian color scheme from here. And then everething is okay, except scrollbars. Scrollbars are now not Visual Studio 2012 cool custom scrollbars, but Windows default scrollbars. I've tried to resel all preferences using "Import and Export options..." menu, but this won't work. Colors returned to default state, but scrollbars are the same Windows scrollbars. By the way, I'm using Dark theme. So question is how to return normal custom scrollbars back? This default are really very annoying.
Sounds like you need a clean install if the resets are not working.
To get a clean "Son of Obsidian" or other themes that don't affect scroll bars, go here.
Also see the Visual Studio Color Theme Editor extension for your version of studio that lets you manage your themes. This should get you back to default theme settings or assist in creating new default theme settings.
After that, you can tweak some hard to find Map Mode Scroll Bar colors in the Visual Studio 2012-13
Tools>options>Environment>FontsAndColors>TextEditor>
Display Items:
Overview background
Overview caret
Overview collapsed region
Overview visible
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