We can change font for VS IDE items in the Options\Environments\Fonts and Colors dialog. However, I still cannot find how to do that for the Properties pane. Can anybody help me with that?
Working mainly with VS 2013 Professional or Community Editions.
Use > tools > options > Fonts and Colors (Show settings drop down)
Environment font for menus etc
Locals Window for properties window
You must restart the IDE to make the properties window changes
Related
When I hit CTRL + F, the following window for search pops up, but the font is relatively very small to the main window. How do I fix this?
In VS 2019 it's
Tools > Options > Environment > Fonts and Colors
then from the "Show settings for:" drop down you can select
Environment
Where you can alter the default font for all VS Window and menu text.
NB: This may be more than you are willing to change
Coding/editor windows will remain the same.
Fonts for all editors is in
Text Editor
Does anybody know how to change the pop-ups font in Visual Studio ?
I need fixed size fonts and I spent already countless time browsing.
Thanks.
Those are called Tooltips, not pop-ups. And yes, you can change their font settings.
Go to Tools > Options > Environment > Fonts and Colors.
From the drop-down menu, select Editor Tooltip:
Change the font settings as you wish and click OK.
Before:
After:
I just got my new MacBook and I downloaded Visual Studio Community 2019 for Mac, but I can not enable the dark mode and the white one literally kills my eyes in Night.
The usual way to do this doesn't work for me, because there isn't dark mode in the Preferences. (Preferences/Environment/Visual Style/User Interface theme)
Menu ➡️ Visual Studio ➡️ Preferences
I use Visual Studio Code. If you go to the Code menu item and click on preferences. When the preferences open the menu's show the items in the figure below.
At the bottom of the preferences menu panal is a option for 'Color Theme'. Click on Color Theme and select a dark theme from the collection of themes shown..
Visual Studio 2019 - Click Tools > Options
Go to Environment > General tab and select the colour theme from the dropdown
-- I've just noticed that you're using a Mac. The below was on Windows 10. I'm not sure if this will be different on a Mac. --
I am trying to make the UI of Visual Studio 2017 smaller, but I can't find any settings for that.
I know I can resize the code-content, but I am looking for a way to make the Solution Explorer, Properties, Toolbar, etc. smaller.
Go to Tools > Options > Environment > Fonts and Colors
In "Show Settings for" chose "Environment"
In "Font" replace Automatic to a different font, then change the size.
Change the font size of that setting, all Font size in the Explorers (Solution Explorer, Server Explorer and Toolbox) and menus will change.
I don't want to change the entire background color of solution explorer in VS, only the selected file.
Hints?
Thanks.
Check out Tools > Options > Projects and Solutions, and then check off "Track Active Item in Solution Explorer". This will make whichever file you're viewing/editing inside of Visual Studio automatically be selected in Solution Explorer and if your Windows color scheme is set up properly, it will in fact be darker.
This option used to be on by default in 2003 and maybe 2005, but 2008 has it disabled by default now... I personally prefer it turned on.
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Colors\ButtonFace is the registry key that sets the background color of the current file in solution explorer when solution explorer has not focus, this is what I found for Vs2010 and windows 7 - could not seem to find interface to modify the button face color in the gui. many things use this color, so I set just dark enough to see.
I have no idea why you want to do that in the first place, curious :)
Anyway, I doubt you can change the entire UI's background color depending on the type of file /editor mode.
You might find more clues from these:
Visual Studio - Fonts and Colors, Environment, Options Dialog Box
Changing your colors in Visual Studio.NET - Black versus White
How to increase your Visual Studio environment fonts for presentations?