Smart tags are almost impossible to see when using the dark theme on visual studio 2012. how do i change the color of smart tags.
Going to tools>options>environment>fonts and colors>smart tags does not work
just to be clear, in the image above, i am talking about the small blue box under the 't', not the red squiggly line
It's in Tools/Options/Environment/Fonts and Colors:
Show settings for: Text Editor
Display Items: Compiler Error
You can change the Item Foreground property to get the color of the squiggly to change.
Microsoft confirmed it as a problem and has added this defect to their backlog:
http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/796055/extremely-hard-to-see-smart-tag-when-using-dark-theme
I don't have visual studio in front of me, but I believe that is under the text editor options.
As far as I can remember that color is hard-coded to a constant, so you can't change it. Use Ctrl + . to invoke smart tags when there is one on the screen, it is much easier than hunting it down via the mouse.
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Either this is found in Tools Options Fonts and Colors, or it's something editable with Visual Studio Color Theme Designer 2022 (an extension from Microsoft DevLabs).
As you can see, the word cast is white on pale-blue, which is very hard to read (and impossible at smaller scale). I have not been able to locate the setting that will adjust this.
I found a process: the blue in the picture is #FFC4D5FF. In the Theme editor, sorting by Color, I found about 50 items colored with this color. Among those is it
Cider -> ListItemMouseOver?
SearchControl ->PopupControlMouseOverBackgroundGradientMiddle2?
I have no clue. I changed all of them to #FF2362FF. Apply/save, and go to my editor, and I get:
So one of the 50 items is the thing I needed to change. Who knows what else changed. The labels are all very obscure to me. In the event something of these is trouble, I'll have to delve more deeply into the set of elements.
A previous question - Visual Studio 2010 element names for theming - has partially answered this, but not what I'm asking, so please don't forward me there.
First, I'm looking for the name of the tooltip background used in the theme editor (Color theme editor for visual studio 2019.)
Secondly, is there a more efficient method of finding these element names? I built this theme mostly by replacing known colors and then for unknowns, screen-shotting, paste to GIMP, get the HEX code search the xml file for the color, find the name, then return to the theme editor with the name and change the color.
The background color to the tooltip as you can see in the following image (outlined in red) is white, making the info generally unreadable. In the menu dialog mentioned in the referenced question, only the foreground color can be changed. The theme editor does not seem to have a field strictly for the tooltip background, so it is likely pulling this background from another unrelated field as visual studio tends to do.
To add to the confusion, in the above image is from a .cs file; on a .cshtml file, the tooltip looks like this. Evidently there are multiple tooltips, as there is also no syntax highlighting in the following example.
I realize this isn't strictly a coding question, but I still believe this to be the most appropriate place to ask the question - If I'm wrong, mods, please direct me to the proper place.
There is a color documentation made by microsoft (with screenshots). Maybe it could help you finding what you are looking for.
I have spent a long time trying to find out how to change the indent guidelines for visual studio, as the bright gray is really too distracting. I managed to change +/- collapse line, but not the indentation colors.
These are what I am talking about:
They are part of the Productivity Power Tools 2017. This is what they have on their docs:
If you prefer not to see the lines, you can easily turn them off in Tools-Options-Text Editor-General-“Show structure guide lines”. You can also alter their color via the Text Editor “Block Structure Adornments” display item in Fonts and Colors.
But it seems to be outdated. The color setting is now called Structure Guidelines
There seems to be variations of the icon image, and i'm sure they mean something. The standard appears to be a blue box with an X in italics. And, some have a little 'circle' in the bottom left of the standard icon image. I have seen a blue circle with an plus in it, a red circle with a plus in it.
what do these mean, and what are the other variations and their meanings.
I have googled a bit and have found no answer.
thanks in advance..
You have a Visual Studio snapin for ETL development that is causing the icons to get an overlay image. I know of two products that do that. I am not familiar with the glyphs you are referencing but they generally indicate an item configured using expressions or
Below is BIXpress
BIDSHelper (free) calls them SSIS Variable Window Extensions
Finally, SQL Denali aka SQL Server v.Next will have "Icon marker (“Adorner”) to indicate Connection Managers and Variables with expressions" (Look really hard and you will see a little fx symbol in the corner of InputFile connection manager)
I know the colours are changed in Environment > Fonts and Colors but I haven't found out which Display Item the object is.
Can someone please tell how I can colour the following code:
lblMessage.Text = "You have successfully answered my question!"
I have the string coloured pink, I would like the lblMessage purple and the .Text a light green.
For me the darker the colour the less it will "change". I won't often change object names, I'll more often change properties and am always changing strings - although I have another question about this that I'll post later.
Thanks
Go to Environment > Fonts and Colors > Display Items and change
Identifier
String
I was hoping that their is I can be
more specific with the colours - if
their isn't then that's an acceptable
answer - just disappointing for me.
Yeah, I don't think you can do that. :)
This is possible if you use a 3rd party addin like Visual Assist. It lets you assign different colors to classes, variables, macros and functions (among other features).