I am "attempting" to use the image editor in Visual Studio 2013 to fix a gif file. The "documentation" references an image menu which is missing. I am also attempting to set the foreground and background colors.
Does anyone have any advice on how to do this?
The image editor has been replaced in VS2013, it no longer uses a dedicated menu. So whatever documentation you are using is surely outdated. The VS2013 specific documentation is here.
Pick, say, the Pen tool from the toolbar. The Properties window lets you set the fore- and background colors.
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I have just starting learning how to make games in Unity, using Visual Studio as the Script Editor, I see other people have their Code colour coded and it also has auto completion.
I've followed some tutorials online but nothing has worked for me.
what do I have to install to get it working?
To add auto-completion you have to add the unity visual studio package. To add this package please type in your windows search field: "Visual Studio Installer" and then click at the visual studio version the button "change". After that, a new window opens in this window click the field with the unity package and then install this package. Now you have auto-completion in Visual Studio.
To add colors look this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_g1TyAGk6Lk& I really recommend this color theme.
The Color Coding of Code can be found on the Tools>Options>Environment>Fonts and Colors. For example, you want to change the color for the Operators (+, -, /, *, etc.), you would need to find it in the Display items List and edit (found on the Right Side of the Display Items) the color of the foreground (the text itself), it's background or whether it is displayed in bold or not.
I believe that auto completion or IntelliSense is on by default as for what I have Experienced in switching from MonoDevelop to Visual Studio 2017.
Actually, i think you're looking at a popular visual studio plugin called Resharper;
https://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/
It also has a Unity3D plugin (for resharper) which adds full support. That's were the coloring and extra intellisense comes from.
You can see some sample pictures here; https://github.com/JetBrains/resharper-unity
When I double click on a .ico file in Visual Studio 2010 (Professional), it opens what looks like an icon editor. It looks like it should be really easy to pick a color from the left and edit pixels.
But my mouse is a magnifying glass icon. Left click, right click, all they do is toggle zoom on the icon. I can't figure out how to do anything useful.
Am I missing something obvious? Is this icon view as useless as it seems?
You can't directly edit 32-bit color icons but you can convert them manually to 24-bit :
Right click > Add new icon
Open your Icon1.ico file.
Right click > New Image Type or press Ins to open the New Icon Image Type dialog.
Select the format you want, say 96x96, 24 bit or add any custom size and color depth.
Then copy/paste from your 32-bit icon file and save.
Et voilà ! You can now edit your 24-bit color icon.
Doh! I needed to enable View -> Toolbars -> Image Editor.
Thanks to #detale.
The icon is built by an external app.
For Visual Studio 2008 & 2010 image editor,
"Using the Image Editor, you can view 32-bit images, but you cannot edit them."
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/s1dadd79.aspx
For the PNG images used as button icons that Visual Studio cannot edit you can use external editor as MS Paint.
open PNG in Visual Studio 2010
right click on the white canvas -> Open External Editor
Visual Studio can edit icons, but not 24-bit color icons.
If you have a Mac OS X machine around, you can edit Windows icons with the Icon Composer application included with the free Developer Tools.
I just discovered this accidentally while working on some cross-platform Mac/Windows code.
I finally found an easy way to do it without visual studio, GIMP
https://www.gimp.org/downloads/
Visual Studio 2022 (available free) has an icon editor built in. Just in case you end up here because you tried to insert a colourful image into a a 256x256 24 bit icon and your colours get messed up: in the editor toolbar on the top right there is a selector for opaque/transparent background, but only when you have a rectangle- or irregular area selection tool active. Default backgroundis set to transparent, you need to set it to opaque to retain your image. (There's a special colour for transparency; though my image does not contain that the colours were wrong)
I have been looking for , lets use the word "mods", for visual studio left and right to be able to change the background and font color of the code editor for quite a while now. This is a simple question and hopefully not a duplicate of Is it possible to change backround color of editor and autocomplete tooltips in Visual Studio?. If I can refine my question a bit more, is it possible to manually change the background color of the code and text editor, or does mods or plugins or addons exist somewhere to do this feature for me? My eyes are straining on the white background...
I am using visual studio 2010
From the main menu, go to Tools -> Options. From there open up Environment -> Fonts and Colors. If you don't want to spent the time configuring it that way (which would be completely understandable), download the theme editor, or pick and download a nice theme at http://studiostyl.es/
Within VS2010 I'm using a dark/pastel color scheme. SP2010 Feature Designer has a Manifest tab with a Preview of Packaged Manifest read-only XML pane.
As you can see from the two screenshots, there is text in the pane, but it's basically invisible due to the background pane color.
Is there any way to change the font color, from that light gray to something else? I've tried changing several display items within Tools\Options\Environment\Fonts and Colors with no luck.
As a last resort, is there a way to change the pane background color? (although I guess it'll change that for the whole VS IDE)
Thanks all.
Feature manifest preview, unselected:
Feature manifest preview, selected:
In the end I've found a workaround for this ... for whoever (?) might care.
Download Visual Studio Color Theme Editor extension.
If you need help choosing some specific UI color, download any desktop color picker tool, i.e. Just Color Picker.
From a VS SharePoint project, open some Feature manifest or Package manifest preview so to apply and check the ongoing results.
From within VS, create a new custom theme based on Default. Sort the items by name and look for the couple ProjectDesignerBackgroundGradientBegin/End.
Change both to some darker color, like 475B7E.
This is how it looks like:
Being a Dark Theme sort of guy I've settled on using the Visual Studio 2012 Dark Theme for Visual Studio 2010 which provides a great new look for VS2010.
You'll also need to install the Visual Studio Color Theme Editor and then import the [VS2012-Dark-for-2010.vstheme] file using the Theme, Customize Colors..., Import Theme meu options.
I would really like to be able to put an image background on the editor window in vs2010, not just a color. Does anyone know if this is possible?
This is all I've been able to find. It requires CodeRush, and I can't tell whether it has been updated to work with VS2010.
http://vsbackgroundchanger.codeplex.com/