I have trivial problem. I reinstalled my VS2015 and now when I open up my old solution I get other colors than few days ago( theme is the same ).
go to Tools > Options > Productivity Power Tools > Custom Document Well > General
and uncheck color tabs by project
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You probably installed Productivity Power Tools, which does change the tabs to another color groups.
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When I opened Visual Studio today, I observed there is a change in the background colour of the tabs, as shown in the picture.
How can I set it to the old/default color? Following Tools->Options, I didn't manage to find anything helpful.
You have the Productivity Power Tools extension installed, which, among other features, allows customizing the colors of tabs. The idea is that you can color tabs based either on the project with which they are associated and/or the language in which the file is written (which is implemented via the file extension).
These tab-coloring features are all part of the general "Custom Document Well" package, which provides a bunch of advanced customization options for the document tabs. If you don't want any of these, but use other features of Productivity Power Tools, then you can turn them off. Go to Tools → Settings → Productivity Power Tools, and then turn "off" Custom Document Well:
If you just want to disable the coloring and return the tabs to their default colors, then go to Tools → Settings → Productivity Power Tools → Custom Document Well, and uncheck both of the "Color tabs" checkboxes:
If you just don't like the default colors and want to change them, then you can do so by going to Tools → Settings → Productivity Power Tools → Custom Document Well → Color Coding:
There are other interesting options, too; be sure to explore! Personally, this is one of my favorite features because it allows me to distinguish between headers, C code, C++ code, assembly code, and resource files at a glance, making it easy to find the one I want to switch to. I can recognize colors a lot faster than I can read names. (The project coloring is less useful to me since I tend to work on only one project at a time, but I can see that being very useful, too, for the same reasons. Humans have evolved to distinguish color very quickly.)
Update: This is not available for Visual Studio 2019; see this Developer Community thread where support was requested by the community and subsequently denied by Microsoft.
Just FYI:
In Productivity Power Tools 2017 instead of Settings → Productivity Power Tools → Custom Document Well you should enable additional extension, that will be installed while Productivity Power Tools installation:
After that you will see tab for setting up colored tabs:
So if you want to disable colored tabs - just disable Custom Document Well extension
Update: This is not available for Visual Studio 2019.
Visual Studio 2022 give this feature out of the box.
Tools -> Options -> Environment -> Tabs and Windows -> Colorize document tabs by Project
As a shortcut you can directly change it from the text editor
Go to Tools -> Options
Click on font and colors in the left hand pane
Now either
you can USE DEFAULTS to reset the settings and try to customise your settings again.
or you can select the item from Show settings for dropdown.. find the tab colour in the one it shows in your dropdown. Change the font background colour
In Visual Studio 2015 Pro, all of a sudden whichever editor window I have active, its tab moves to the leftmost position.
It must have been some key combination I hit and I can't figure out how to turn it off. I have power tools installed but haven't seen this as an option before. I just mention it because I know it has options for coloring/sorting tabs.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
The behavior you're seeing is a result of the new "Sort by Most Recently Used" option added to Productivity Power Tools in July 2016.
This feature is enabled by default, but can be disabled in Tools > Options > Productivity Power Tools > Custom Document Well > Sorting: Most recently used.
In Visual Studio 2010 I have applied a different color scheme and installed a productivity tool (Teleriks JustCode)... now where every my cursor is the background color of the entire line is light gray. It's really annoying and I'm not sure what is causing it. Has anyone seen this? If so do you know how to turn it off?
I guess it's the Highlight current line option of Resharper or Productivity Power Tools
Deactivate in Resharper
Resharper > Options > Editor > Untick "Highlight current line"
Deactivate in Productivity Power Tools
Tools > Options > Productivity Power Tools > "Highlight current line" to Off
Tools: Options: Environment: Fonts and Colors: Current Line (x2).
Yes, I have seen this, and yes, I have turned it off :-)
I can't get VS2010 to auto-pop after i type a period.
I'm programming in C#, and i've tried playing with the settings under Tools > TextEditor > C# > Intellisense, with no luck.
I've also tried 100 different ways to google it with no luck.
Verify that you have Tools > Options > Text Editor > C# --> Auto list members checked.
Does ctrl-space force it to appear?
Also, If you haven't already, try resetting your IDE back to default and uninstalling/disabling extensions
I'm assuming you're using VS2010 RTM not a Beta or RC? The Beta an RC had problems with intellisense
There's a lot of new things going on in the Productivity Power Tools extensions, and I find that many of the new features come with very weird color combinations, that many times make the text completely illegible. I assume this is because I've previously set a dark theme for Visual Studio, and some, but not all, of the settings that affect the extension have been changed.
Are there any good dark themes out there that have been put together after the Productivity Tools Extension was published, that create a unified color theme for both VS and the extension features?
Clarification: This question is not about color schemes for code, such as those found at studiostyles. I'm talking about color schemes that apply to the development environment itself; toolboxes, menus, tooltips, windows, buttons...
Install the Visual Studio Color Theme Editor extension:
Make your own color scheme or try: The Dark Expression Blend Color Theme (preview below)
Once you have that, you'll want schemes for the text editor as well. This site has several, including the VS2012 "dark" theme implemented for VS2010.
There is a style that I've created based on dark style from VS 2015 to use on my VS 2010. You can download this style from Dark Style from VS 2015.
After download it, just import through menu Tools -> Import and Export Settings...
So, I tested above themes and found out none of them are showing proper color combination when using Productivity Power Tools in Visual Studio.
Ultimately, being a fan of dark themes, I created one myself which is fully supported from VS2005 to VS2013.
Here's the screenshot
Download this dark theme from here: Obsidian Meets Visual Studio
To use this theme go to Tools -> Import and Export Setting... -> import selected environment settings -> (optional to save current settings) -> Browse select and then Finish.
Not sure if any of these help, but this might get you started: http://studiostyles.info
I know that the site owner has been gradually adding functionality to allow support for new color assignments, so perhaps there's something there.
You can also try this handy online tool, which generates .vssettings file for you.
Visual Studio Color Theme Generator