I've tried to make my Visual Studio more beautyful, so I downloaded Son of Obsidian color scheme from here. And then everething is okay, except scrollbars. Scrollbars are now not Visual Studio 2012 cool custom scrollbars, but Windows default scrollbars. I've tried to resel all preferences using "Import and Export options..." menu, but this won't work. Colors returned to default state, but scrollbars are the same Windows scrollbars. By the way, I'm using Dark theme. So question is how to return normal custom scrollbars back? This default are really very annoying.
Sounds like you need a clean install if the resets are not working.
To get a clean "Son of Obsidian" or other themes that don't affect scroll bars, go here.
Also see the Visual Studio Color Theme Editor extension for your version of studio that lets you manage your themes. This should get you back to default theme settings or assist in creating new default theme settings.
After that, you can tweak some hard to find Map Mode Scroll Bar colors in the Visual Studio 2012-13
Tools>options>Environment>FontsAndColors>TextEditor>
Display Items:
Overview background
Overview caret
Overview collapsed region
Overview visible
Related
I am using the Color Theme Editor extension for Visual Studio 2017, and I'm having trouble changing the color of a particular section in the editor tooltips.
In the example below, I cannot figure out how to customize the bit with the white background - the method signature from the tooltip showing method overloads.
I have figured out how to customize pretty much everything else with the tooltips, except for that highlighted section. For example, Environment -> Tooltip will set the background of the entire tooltip (strangely enough the Environment -> Tooltip -> Background setting doesn't seem to do anything...).
Does anyone happen to know how to control the colors for the text highlighted in white in the example?
It looks like that particular color is messed up when you change theme.
Restart Visual Studio and then the color should be OK.
I get the same issue when I change the Tooltip text background with Color Theme Editor extension. And I have submit this issue to Q&A of Color Theme Editor extension for Visual Studio 2017.
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=VisualStudioProductTeam.VisualStudio2017ColorThemeEditor#qna
Still a problem in Visual Studio Community 2019 v16.3.6; still the same solution (restarting) works.
I don't know what the office name of this feature is, but in Visual Studio 2015 you get a neat preview dialog when hovering your mouse over a collapsed method or function. The preview dialog will show the first 20 or so lines of that method/function. What I want to do is customize the background color that preview dialog/popup. I cannot for the life of me find the appropriate Fonts and Colors setting which controls this and I don't know what to look for in the Visual Studio Color Theme Editor either.
Here is a picture of what I am referring to:
I have a customized dark theme but want to change the sickly, pale brownish-yellow color of the highlighted preview dialog to make the code more readable.
Any suggestions as to what color/theme settings I'd change? I don't want to just apply a different theme. I want to customize my current one.
The dark blue background in the Visual Studio 2010 IDE is driving me nuts. How can I change the background to a slate silver color?
You can do that in Tools / Options and then Environment / Fonts And Colors and there is a setting for background color.
Or even better you can choose from predefined styles at http://studiostyl.es/, these style setting works for Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Studio 2010 for all versions, including the express :
http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2010/04/29/download-and-share-visual-studio-color-schemes.aspx
I use this one:
http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/20cd93a2-c435-4d00-a797-499f16402378?SRC=VSIDE
It will add a 'Theme' menu to the tool bar where you can change the colour scheme to a pre-set one, or define your own.
there is a site called https://studiostyl.es it contains a some of nice themes
download a theme you like
then go to tools>options>Environment>import and export setting
then you will see a textbox for team setting file
finally, put the path of your downloaded setting file, then press ok
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.