Does anyone here happen to know if the flag that appears in the title bar of visual studio to alert users of new notifications (see the illustration below) is part of a font family (ie along the lines of wingdings) which gives it that blue roll over effect when one rolls one's mouse over it.
I have been experimenting with adding additional buttons to the Title Bar (I'm using Actipro's RibbonWindow and adjusting the WindowChrome) and I can see that using text with a certain style added will give the correct effect. Now I'm just trying to establish if the flag symbol that is used in visual studio is readily available and if so where. For example I know that using a capital o as the content of a button and setting the font to Wingdings will produce a flag, but not the one that Visual Studio uses.
No, it is a path. In VS 2015 it is defined as "F1M14,0L0,0 7,14 9,14 6,8 14,0 14,0z M11.586,1L5.293,7.293 4.94,7.645 1.618,1 11.586,1"
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I have updated to the newest Visual Studio 2019 and it looks like they have changed color scheme for text, e.g. method names became yellow. I would like to return it back to white as before, but can't figure out where this setting is.
P.S. Same thing for parameter names that became blue. There is probably some option to switch to old color scheme?
VS2019 also introduced new "enhanced" colors for .NET languages, for which there is a separate option to toggle on and off:
The same checkbox is listed for both C# and Basic (VB).
Updated answer for 2020.
Make sure this is set to 2019.
It is possible to change in Options->Environment->Fonts and Colors. There is a list with different User Memebers - ... and User Tyeps - ... that define these colors.
I have actually changed User Members - Fields and User Members - Properties to be same color as User Member - Parameters. It became much better, white and yellow did not work too well for me :)
Now it's almost like Visual Studio Code
If you are coding in C++ you probably have enhanced color activate. To deactivate go Tool-->Options and from the left menu select Text Editor-->C/C++-->View. Then go to the section "Miscellaneous" on the right and change "Color Scheme" from "Enhanced" to "Visual Studio 2017"
Document tabs in Visual Studio are sized to the name of the file as it appears on the tab. This means that the size of each tab that is open is contingent on the size of the text of the file name.
Is there a setting buried somewhere that will allow me to keep all tabs the exact same width?
Why does this matter?
For those that must know a reason for this request, I often work in sizable projects which someone else originally created. While researching functionality of code, I'll often open up over 10 documents, tracing paths or researching behavior. When I'm finished with my research, I'll often have to close the previous 3-7 tabs to get back to my original document and unclutter my work area.
I know this seems like a minor nuisance but since every file name is different, you can't keep your mouse in one location and click the the left-button 3-7 times in rapid succession to close all pertinent documents. You have to float the mouse back and forth, for every tab, because of the variance in tab size.
I'd prefer to just set it so that all tabs are the same size, regardless of the length of the file name. Can this be done with reasonable effort?
I am using Visual Studio 2015, so I would like an answer for that version of VS. However, once I upgrade to VS 2017, I'd like to make the same change to that environment.
If the answer for either version is different, I would prefer an answer for both instances of VS.
You can try Productivity Power Tools.
The feature "Vertical tabs" is what you need.
Document tabs are shown vertically, allowing you to fit more tabs than are normally visible when shown horizontally.
For VS 2015 https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=VisualStudioProductTeam.ProductivityPowerTools2015
For VS 2017 https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=VisualStudioProductTeam.ProductivityPowerPack2017
Updated:
Productivity Power Tools also support customizing min/max tab width. You can find it from Tools>Options...>Productivity Power Tools>Custom Document Well>Advanced
In VS2022 this is built in under Tools-> Environment -> Tabs and Windows
In the bottom of my Visual Studio there is a little icon (see image)
It is a moving magnify glass (I think it's a magnify glass, I'm sure it's moving)
It's moving all the time (it's moving, in a circle shape, and the background 'block' shape is growing larger and smaller), but there is no hover text, nor can I click it...
I'm afraid of moving icons when I don't know what they do.....
Anyone know what it means/does?
EDIT:
when I click on F5, it's shown besides the VS build icon:
That's the predefined SBAI_Find icon in Visual Studio's Status Bar Animation Region. Any extension could be triggering it (or even Visual Studio itself). There's more information here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/es-es/library/microsoft.visualstudio.shell.interop.ivsstatusbar.animation(v=vs.100).aspx
There's no way to tell what is triggering it by your question only. To find the culprit, I'd try disabling all extensions and enabling them one-by-one.
Notice it shows when using the standard Find in Visual Studio (if you want a lengthy operation to check it, use Find In Files)
In Simple Words , It Is a Search Engine Build By VB.net To Find Content According To The User's Requirement Needed And The Section Selected
Note: Different Section Will Lead To Different Search Result
It simply means, it is trying to find and link all the files. You should not be too much bothered about it and it is not from any of the third party extension.
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.
Consider the Visual Studio's highly-customizable configuration of the text editor.
The value I'd like to tweak is the highlighting of the found search string. See circled below.
Question: in Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2, or Visual Studio 2008 which setting in the Fonts and Colors dialog box will allow the highlight/surround color to be changed?
Try changing Colors->Selected Text and Colors->Inactive Selected Text (in Tools->Options->Environment->Fonts)
There's a bug in Beta 2 that the results of a Find operation are highlighted with the inactive selection color instead of the active selection color (as Orcas did). Post Beta 2, it should show up in the much more obvious blue (or whatever the active selection color is set to).
Other than that, it isn't separately configurable, as the highlight is the actual text selection and not a marker of some sort.