It's trivial, I know, but yesterday, out of nowhere, Visual Studio 2012 Professional started displaying "Solution Explorer", "Team Explorer - Home", etc. in the tabs instead of nice little icons. Does anyone know how to bring back the icons?
There is an extension that does just that. It was written for VS 2015 but works fine in VS 2017.
Visual Studio Iconizer for Visual Studio 2015
Icons are displayed when the widths of the tabs are too narrow. To get the icons back, either make the pane narrower or dock some more tabs in that pane.
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When I'm using Visual Studio and I go on the properties window, its really hard to browse for something.
It has this black weird layout which only displays when I'm using dark mode and also gets worse by opening some tabs.
I'm using VS 2015, but this happened to me on VS 2012 that being the reason why I upgraded to VS 2015.
I've tried changing to custom themes to see if it would help but it didn't.
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In Visual Studio 2019, I can see this icon to adjust the different panes:
What is this feature name in VS 2019 and VS 2017?
This handle can vertically split the editor.
That's the splitter control. It's found in a lot Microsoft apps like Word or Excel. Alternatively click Split on the Window menu. See Customize window layouts in Visual Studio
It's similar to Splitter Control for Windows Forms
Normally the Tabs in Visual Studio contains only text.
But if there is not enough space there are icons instead of the text.
Is it possible to always show these icons additionally to the text? Because I assume that this would really improve the readability.
It seems like there is NOT a way to show both the text AND icons, its either the text or the icon (when resizing the window). This is true for both Visual Studio 2012 and 2013.
Is there any extensions for Visual Studio 2010 to tweak the looks of the tab bar?
I miss the look of the tabs in Visual Studio 2005 with the slanted left edge and low height.
Tabs Studio extension (developed by me) with the Shaper add-in let you setup VS 2005 like tabs:
http://www.tabsstudio.com/documentation/style.html#CommunityStyles
The only extension for tweaking the tab bar appearance in Visual Studio 2010 is the Productivity Power Tools, but it doesn't let you bring back the angled appearance from Visual Studio 2005.
I wanted to know how Visual Studio Toolbox displays only a sub-set of Controls of all the controls depending on the document open. Document can be any file, for example, when WindowsForms is open, any component that can be dropped appears on the toolbox.
How does Visual Studio does it?
I have Visual Studio SDK installed. How do I know which tabs are hidden and which tabs are displayed. (Of course "Show All.." is unchecked).
Thanks!!
-Datte