Is there any way to change the color of the execution point arrow icon in the Visual Studio 2010 debugger?
I'm talking about the pale yellow arrow that goes in the left margin at the line where the execution pointer currently is. My problem is that its contrast against the very light gray background of the margin is very poor and I sometimes have a hard time spotting the arrow.
I didn't see any way in the visual studio settings to allow this change, and while I found this Change Visual studio 2010 color palette which links to a vs theme editor allows changing themes for a lot of the VS UI elements - it doesn't seem to affect the debugger margin icons or the margin color itself.
Yep, Tools > Options > Environment > Fonts and Colors > under "Display Items:", choose "Current Statement".
Just did it myself :-)
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I have a VS 2022 Theme that doesn't address the Tabs toolbar colors. I have a VSTheme Project for it, so can fix it, but I don't know where the colors are in the "All Elements" tab.
Does anyone know how to colorize these elements in the VSTheme Project Editor?
Seems the majority of the color settings are called "FileTab" (example, to change the background color, look for FileTabActiveGroupBackground).
Here is a broken down screenshot of some of the color controls:
I am using a dark theme in Visual Studio 2010 and whenever I move the mouse to the left end of the editor it makes the whole block white, which is really annoying.
Example: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/40553515/strangeVS.png
How to turn this feature off?
I believe this is a VS "Feature" rather than a CodeRush one.
See if this helps...
Locate: Tools->Options->Environment->Fonts and Colors
Then choose Collapsible Region -> Background color and alter this value to the same as your editor background.
This should stop the color change.
I am using Visual Studio 2012 RC with a dark background in the editor. I am NOT using the dark color theme. I am using the light theme. When I set a breakpoint, the text changes to black and I can't see it. I unchecked “Highlight entire source line for breakpoints and current statement.” setting under 'Debugging'. In "Fonts and Colors" all the entries for 'breakpoint' and 'current statement' do not have a dark color for both foreground and background colors.
Where is the setting for this or is this a bug in VS?
You can change the font color to white in Tools -> Options -> Environment -> Fonts and Colors -> Breakpoint (enabled). That won't restore syntax highlighting, though.
Still can't turn it off properly in VS2019 but there is hope in the form of an github issue. Go thumb it up & subscribe: https://github.com/dotnet/roslyn/issues/39114
You can change the color as mentioned above, but this will lose the syntax highlighting.
check Options - Text Editor - General - Indicator Margin.
It should be checked, so Visual Studio can place the marker.
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/
When I moved from Visual Studio 2008 to Visual Studio 2010, there seems to only be a small section of pointing space (for the mouse) to click and drag and click again, to grab a few lines of code. This is about 8 pixels wide and is referred to as the Selection Margin. I often used this area in Visual Studio 2008 to select/copy/paste code. Now I have to rely on using the keyboard, which is not difficult, but if I'm using the mouse, Visual Studio is not very intuitive or usable. Is there a way to prevent the highlighting of lexical groups (where the expand/collapse or plus/minus sections are) so I can just select the lines of code instead? They seem to call this block highlighting. Most of the surface area to the left of the text in Visual Studio 2010 seems to be dedicated to the block highlighting. The text editor freezes when a lexical block of code is highlighted and I cannot use the right context menu. The right context menu is also only available from inside the text editor now, so I have to select my lines in that 8 pixel region, then move my mouse over to the right to copy. My productivity in Visual Studio 2010 has decreased substantially because of this change.
I'm wondering if anyone has written any extensions with the Visual Studio 2010 editor to fix these issues?
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/macros/WriteExtensions.aspx
Options > Text Editor > All Languages > Show line numbers. This allows you to have more space to select and copy the lines, but you still must go over to the right (where the code is) to copy.
Have you tried to select in a so called 'Continuous Stream Mode' which is supported by VS 2010 by default? Here's what I mean -> Hold down the SHIFT key and click in the Selection Margin(located at the far left of the Editor window, to select a whole line.) to extend your selection line by line.
Regards,
Evgenia