I'm using the dark theme for VS2013. The workflow designer background for a SSIS package is quite the eyesore. It's a black background, which is fine, and has a white/creme colored lines. I'm assuming that the lines are meant to be there to distinguish that it is the background and not an element, but it makes horizontal lines a pain to look at. Also, the blue completion lines are barely visible. So is there a way to change the color and get rid of the lines?
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The lines seem to only be there during debug, just noticed. So if there is no way of removing them, it's not that big of a deal.
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I am using PowerShell and I have run into the issue that I cannot distinguish certain colored text from the background. I have tried to go with default PowerShell blue, black, white, grey... There is a problem with all colors. For example with white - vagrant is colored yellow. If I choose black or blue then I cannot see Laravel's artisan which is blue (inside vagrant box). On grey I think I didn't read yellow and the bring green from logging into vagrant.
It's not as if I can change the background on the go as it often retains the background color as text background color. Also switching constantly would be annoying. I have tried Googling said issue but I have not come across anything that corresponds to the issue I am having. Surely there is a solution for this somehow?
I am posting this as a separate post since the only response I got was missing a few details to make it complete.
If you ever run across this error, then you indeed go to Properties > Colors and not only change the background color but change all the other colors presets to match. They are not there to offer you some presets to choose from, which I mistakenly believed - they are actual color definitions used by the console. When you are done, make sure that the selected colors for background, text etc have not shifted.
For example: PowerShell is dark blue. As such you cannot use colors that are similar and the bright regular blue I will change to light blue, which stands out easily. And voilá.
You should be able to change the text color for specific syntax in the colors tab. In the properties tab when you right click on power shell. Go to colors tab and edit it according
I changed my theme from white to black. The line numbers won't change to the correct foreground and background.
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Why's that?
Any answers appreciated.
I found a way of how to fix it:
You go to Tools->Options->Environment->Font and Colors
Choose line numbers, choose different background, click OK, go back and set it again to default.
Ok. I am finding it difficult to visually discern where the current focus of my editor is. The image below shows that I am currently in the bottom PathIcon tag while the top PathIcon tag is highlighted because it is a matching type. The similarity in color has finally driven me crazy.
Does anyone know the correct text-type in the Fonts and Colors dialog of Visual Studio 2015 to change this color? And, look, for all the StackOverflow haters trolling the board, please resist closing this q until there is an answer. Then you can have your fun.
It looks like there are actually two different colors in play here. The grey box on the "<PathIcon" that contains the cursor is "Brace Matching (Rectangle)". The purplish box on the other "PathIcon" looks like it is the background portion of the "Match color", which is installed by the pro power tools.
The latter color won't reset if you change the color in fonts and colors but will be correct for editor instances you open after changing the color.
I think you're looking for Highlight Current Line (Active), which controls the colors of the line your cursor is on.
Created some code maps in Visual Studio 2013 to see if they help in any way. They're actually quite good. However, it has coloured various entities and I've no idea how it has decided what colour to use for what entity.
There are blue, dark purple and pink entities showing. At first glance, blue is interfaces and abstract classes, but not always, pink and purple I have no idea.
Second there are arrows connecting the entities which are also coloured and occassionally dotted. I've no idea what these are supposed to represent without actually looking at them. Again I need some sort of key.
Thank you
You can get the meaning of a block by looking at the symbol it contains. The colours can vary, you can change the colours also. What you should see is the symbols. Below is the list of symbols:
The links:
You can find this legend from the legend button on top of a codemap file. As you can see in the picture below.
There's a legend button in the upper right corner of the code map window (or there should be). Clicking that gives this (for C++):
I have applied a color theme called Vibrant Ink (or some modification of it), and since I installed Visual Studio 2010 Pro Power Tools all my statement completion boxes are unreadable.
undreadable http://img139.imageshack.us/img139/7876/undreadable.png.
What setting changes the colors of these boxes? Preferrably, I'd like to change the background color to something darker, but if that's not possible at least I want to change the text color.
Update: I changed the SignatureHelpTooltipBackground setting under Tools->Options...->Environment->Fonts and colors, but this doesn't seem to affect the tooltips when editing JavaScript.
Is there another setting for JS colors, or is this a bug in VS?
The "default" ToolTip style has hard-coded colors that will only be different if you are running in high-contrast mode. Otherwise, it will be the light gray gradient you see in the picture above.
The tooltips in the ProPack for VB/C# files use a custom (configurable) style as you noted above.
Please submit feedback that the default tooltip background color should be configurable. The more customer requests are heard for this issue, the higher the likelihood it will be fixed in a future release:
http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio
I'm not sure it is legal or not, we can always disassemble the code and modify (patch) what we want. In this case, find that gray color in assembly and change it. It shouldn't be hard for someone who knows .NET and hexes well.