Is there a way to configure Visual Studio 2010 (or ReSharper, btw.) to zoom in newly opened files to a specific percentage?
(Background: In some cases (working late, different screen) I'd like to zoom in a little to make it easier on the eyes)
VSCommands 2010 allows you to specify zoom level for newly opened documents.
In the meantime I found a working solution:
The Visual Studio add-in presentation zoom provides a behavior similar to which I was looking for. To quote the description at vs gallery:
This extension creates a global zoom level so that if you zoom a single window, all editor instances will be updated to that zoom level.
The zoom level is applied to newly opened files as well (which was particularly important for me)
I'd go with plainly changing the default text size via Tools > Options > Environment > Fonts and Colors > Size
As to ReSharper, it doesn't provide this kind of rendering options.
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I guess I have hundreds opens files in my VS2015 now and it is really a headache to find the one which I need. I remember seeing somebody's VS screen which can pick up some tabs and list them in the left panel of visual studio. Is that a add-on or some configuration is built-in options?
Maybe it was my Task Canvas extension that lets you open several small editor windows as tabs in one panel.
Is there a document or a chart somewhere that translates the thousands (possibly tens of thousands -- who knows!) of controls in the new Visual Studio color theme catastrophe into something recognizable by people who aren't clinically insane?
I have no idea what a "ClassDesignerClassCompartmentKey" is... or a "ProjectDesignerTabSepTopGradientEndKey", or any of the other fifty million unnecessary and unwanted "controls" that have been inflicted on us by the Visual Studio Design Team are.
All I want to do is fix the UI disaster that is Visual Studio 2012, but I don't have a clue where to start. I guess I can download another one of the useless Color Theme addins from the Microsoft Extensions that don't work, but at this point I'm so irritated by the complete lack of functionality in the four (maybe more...) useless addins that I have installed and removed that I'm going to write an application that will take my system desktop colors and brute-force them onto all five hundred billion "theme controls" so that I can go back to using an IDE that doesn't make me want to stab myself in the eyes.
If you want to see exactly what is being changed you can use this online theme editor. Go to create a new theme or select an existing one, click on the item that you want to change, it will give you the name that VS uses which you can adjust in the Visual Studio. You can create a theme or import the one that offends you and make alterations and export it out to be used.
If you're referring to ways to change the color theme of Visual Studio 2012, Scott Hanselman wrote a good article, Your Colorful Visual Studio 2012 with the Color Theme Editor (VS2010 colors, too). Probably of greatest interest he refers to Matthew Johnson's Visual Studio 2012 Color Theme Editor (a.k.a Visual Studio 2012 Color Theme Editor) which makes it simple to apply prebuilt themes. He also includes the following registry modification to turn off the all-caps feature.
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\11.0\General\SuppressUppercaseConversion REG_DWORD value: 1
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.
Is there any option to zoom in or out in visual studio '05. Upgrading to '10 isn't an option here. I miss being able to look close up when I need it.
From what I can tell there is no native support, are there any ways to trick it into zooming?
Visual Studio 2010 is the first release which supports zooming on a file. Prior to 2010 there is no zoom like capability. In order to make the text bigger you'll need to bump up the fon size.
Tools -> Options
Evironment -> Fonts and Colors
Change the Size parameter
Zoom in the code? Holding ctrl + mouse scroll maybe resolve?
I don't want to change the entire background color of solution explorer in VS, only the selected file.
Hints?
Thanks.
Check out Tools > Options > Projects and Solutions, and then check off "Track Active Item in Solution Explorer". This will make whichever file you're viewing/editing inside of Visual Studio automatically be selected in Solution Explorer and if your Windows color scheme is set up properly, it will in fact be darker.
This option used to be on by default in 2003 and maybe 2005, but 2008 has it disabled by default now... I personally prefer it turned on.
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Colors\ButtonFace is the registry key that sets the background color of the current file in solution explorer when solution explorer has not focus, this is what I found for Vs2010 and windows 7 - could not seem to find interface to modify the button face color in the gui. many things use this color, so I set just dark enough to see.
I have no idea why you want to do that in the first place, curious :)
Anyway, I doubt you can change the entire UI's background color depending on the type of file /editor mode.
You might find more clues from these:
Visual Studio - Fonts and Colors, Environment, Options Dialog Box
Changing your colors in Visual Studio.NET - Black versus White
How to increase your Visual Studio environment fonts for presentations?