Is there a trick I can do to Visual Studio 2013 to get the icons to show up crisply?
I'm running my monitor at 1920 x 1080. I'm using the dark theme.
Here's a picture of what the Visual Studio team indicated would be our experience even on a resolution as high as 4k, which mine is not that high. If this was my ux, I would not have posted this question today.
Here's the same area of my screen. Notice the fuzziness around the edges of the icons.
But it's really bad over on the property grid. I mean the ones right above [+]Font.
An IDE can look OK on my monitor, so I don't think it's my monitor. Here's an equivalent area from Android Studio. The little icons to the right of "Component Tree" are crisp enough for my eyes to not notice any degredation.
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What does the red circle with the white dots mean, in the solution explorer of Visual Studio for Mac?
It means "file is modified".
Apparently the source-control annotations for Solution Explorer icons is still undocumented - even back when it was called Xamarin Studio, see this thread from 2018: https://forums.xamarin.com/discussion/2741/what-do-the-different-icon-annotations-mean
I have something really weird going on and don't know where the problem lies..
I recently started working on a Lenovo X1 Carbon with touchscreen. When working with the touchpad or external mouse there seems to be some kind of a bad offset when clicking inside my visual studio working pane.
I have to click on the row above to get my cursor to be set on the row below. This ONLY happens in Visual Studio's working pane.
I need to click on the red square to get my cursor on the place it is in the picture and I have NO idea how to fix this :-( I couldn't find any problem like this on the web.
I'm working in Visual Studio Enterprise 2015 on a brand new system with all drivers up to date. Running Windows 10 enterprise on a UHD display, so my DPI is set at 200% and perhaps the problem lies here...
I have a problem with a black line appearing at the bottom of Visual Studio. This happens only if I move the window to my monitor which is in portrait mode and only for VS. It doesn't appear for any other program. In VS2010 it's not such a big problem:
However in VS2013 it partially covers the status bar which is really annoying:
Has anyone encountered this kind of behavior?
Thanks for any tips on how to fix this.
Is there any way to change the color of the execution point arrow icon in the Visual Studio 2010 debugger?
I'm talking about the pale yellow arrow that goes in the left margin at the line where the execution pointer currently is. My problem is that its contrast against the very light gray background of the margin is very poor and I sometimes have a hard time spotting the arrow.
I didn't see any way in the visual studio settings to allow this change, and while I found this Change Visual studio 2010 color palette which links to a vs theme editor allows changing themes for a lot of the VS UI elements - it doesn't seem to affect the debugger margin icons or the margin color itself.
Yep, Tools > Options > Environment > Fonts and Colors > under "Display Items:", choose "Current Statement".
Just did it myself :-)
I have recently moved to a dark color theme for all my code editors. It is much easier on the eyes. But I recently came across an issue that I can’t figure out how to correct and was hoping that someone will have an answer.
When the method info box pops up this is what it looks like this:
Notice the method info is unreadable because the colors in the theme are meant for a dark background. How can I change the background of this popup?
The theme is a modified version of Coding Instinct available on StudioStyles. Here is my modified version. It sets the background for the linenumbers/marker margin plus some other minor tweaks.
It's Visual Studio 2010 Pro Power Tools extension causing the issue. Someone on the Q&A discussion thread for Visual Studio 2010 Pro Power Tools said:
it seems that the Fonts and Colors selection for "Signature Help Tooltip Background" is the Text Editor color definition that effects this.