I find the dark theme much easier to concentrate in, but I think I mucked something up a while ago and it turned the dark theme text editor into a monstrosity:
I tried clicking reset to defaults in this menu:
But it appears that that menu does not control this specific part because it did not change it back (Or god forbid it's supposed to look like this)
Does anyone know the solution for this?
It looks like you have an extension installed that is providing that coloring. Go to Tools->Extensions and Updates and check if there's anything about alternating line colors (perhaps this extension), and disable or uninstall it.
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I really like the Zenburn theme. As such, I downloaded this theme from studio styles and imported it as settings. Everything seems to have configured correctly except one thing - the line number separator.
If you look at the link above, you'll see there's no line between the line numbers and the code. Just a nice space. When I installed the theme I get this baby-puke-green line separator that is really off-putting:
I have installed the color editor plugin but I can't seem to find a way to edit this part of the theme. I really like the overall theme, and everything else seems to work correctly, I just really want this awful color gone (I don't even think it's in the theme!).
How can I change/remove this separator so it looks more like the image on https://studiostyl.es?
If you are using Color Theme Editor for Visual Studio 2017 you can just search for line number for the leftmost puke green and for track changes to change the vertical bar in yellow or green by default which is Track Changes before save and Track Changes after save respectively and change the foreground and background color that way and save your modifications as a custom theme.
You don't need any theme editor though. The built-in options dialog has a setting for all of those as well.
I've already done some searching on this, but to no avail, and it's driving me insane.
I use the dark theme in VS 2013, and I have a selection of add-ons installed that change how the text is displayed in some circumstances. The two that immediately spring to mind are ReSharper (v9) and VS Commands.
The issue I have is that whenever I go into the VS options, or even ReSharper options, I'm greeted with some dark text, and some light text, which actually makes using the options extraordinarily difficult, as shown here:
If anybody knows what's causing this, or how to fix it, I'll be eternally grateful. I've tried resetting the font colour settings, but nothing seems to be touching it. I don't particularly want to reset all of my VS settings, so I'm holding off on that in the hope that somebody can point me in the right direction.
Update (21 Aug 15):
I've noticed today that my ReSharper options appear to be correct when I open Visual Studio initially - not opening via a solution file. As soon as I open a solution, the colours change to how they are in the screenshot. It doesn't appear to matter what solution I open, but as soon as a solution is opened the problem presents itself again.
I'm learning both Java and C# right now. I started with Java first, back in august. The class I'm using uses BlueJ as a compiler. BlueJ has this cool color coding, where it's not just key words or such, the background changes based on what exactly you're typing in.
(Because I'm terrible at explaining things, it looks like this: http://imgur.com/HvhJUgY)
It's made it so easy on my eyes. Now that I've started coding in C#, my eyes can't seem to adjust back to not having the colors. I find myself getting lost in where an if statement begins and ends, and end up having to put ridiculous amounts of space and comments between code to help me follow it better. Does Visual studio have any options to do this, or do I just have to suck it up and learn to adjust?
The colour coding is in the Fonts and Colors options. To get there select Tools/Options. In the dialog, select Environment/Fonts and Colors. For the code, you can set the options in the text editor but you can do it for all the other windows in visual studio too.
Solution:
You can download an extension. In Visual studio code, click on the button that has four squares on the right hand side of the VS code's window. Then, in the search bar, search for "Bracket Pair Colorizer 2." This extension should aid your vision when looking at code. Here's an example
picture. Also, this extension is customizable, letting you add any color you'd like to resemble different types of lines of code.
Settings
To customize your extension, under the extension name you will find a settings dial, similar in shape to the windows settings logo. Click on that, and then click on "Extension settings". From there, you have access to many useful settings.
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I use a custom color scheme in Visual Studio (black background, gray text, etc.). There a few settings that refuse to change, however. For example, when cursoring through the markup for an aspx page, the current tag defaults to black text, which doesn't work well on my black background. I've previously changed the appropriate setting to a "visible" color. In fact, to fix it, all I have to do is open the Options window, check and uncheck the Bold setting on Plain Text and hit OK, and now all my chosen settings are properly loaded. If I open a new session though, I have to go through these steps again. There are only a few settings where I notice this behavior (the Read-Only Region is another one), but it's annoying to have to do a dummy option change to get them to kick in. Has anyone seen this behavior before, and does anyone have a fix/workaround?
UPDATE: Found an interesting fix. I still don't know what the root cause is (probably some corruption as #sliderhouserules suggessts), but I've got a quicker way to fix it than using Tools | Options | Fonts and Colors. I simply exported my current color settings and created a macro to load them in:
Public Sub ImportColors()
DTE.ExecuteCommand("Tools.ImportandExportSettings", "-import:""C:\Documents and Settings\gregf\My Documents\Visual Studio 2008\Settings\FontsAnColors_Exported-2008-12-05.vssettings""")
End Sub
I then mapped that macro to a button on my toolbar. Now I have a one-click fix whenever my colors go awry. Not ideal, but much less painful now.
Sounds to me like you may have some corruption in your VS install or something (IE you need to reinstall VS). This doesn't sound like a bug, and you'd be fishing in the dark trying to repair your registry or whatever config files are involved in setting and storing these options for VS.
I imported my old fonts and colors settings under environment, and my code looks the way I like it, but I don't see where to change the look of the blue border surrounding it.
If anyone knows where this is, please help me complete my usual post-install pimp my IDE routine...
Install the Visual Studio Color Theme Editor:
http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/20cd93a2-c435-4d00-a797-499f16402378
You cannot - there simply isnt any support for that. As MicTech said, this might appear in teh next version, or perhaps even the next SP for VS2010. Why? because it's not that hard, now that they've rewritten it in WPF (its not the WPF that makes it easier, its the rewritten architecture).