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?
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What is the inline hints on/off shortcut in visual studio 2022?
I checked these checkboxes and it works but the shortcut Alt+F1 not work. (Visual Studio Community 2022 (64-bit) - Preview
Version 17.2.0 Preview 2.1)
I found your question because I was having the same issue. I think I've figured out what's going on.
Are you coding in C# or C/C++ ?
If you're doing C#, HOLDING DOWN the alt-F1 keys will TEMPORARILY show ALL the types of hints available; i.e. those you haven't told it to show all the time. When you release alt-F1 the 'extra' hints will disappear. If, as in your image, you've chosen to show almost everything all the time, holding down alt-F1 probably won't display anything different. (try diabling some of the stuff below the first line and see if there's a difference when you hold down alt-F1)
On my system it reacts rather slowly; if you just tap quickly you might not see any change.
(if that doesn't work, you might want to check to see if any extensions you're using are overriding the alt-F1 shortcut)
If you're using C/C++ the inline hints works a bit differently. Here alt-F1 or ctrl-ctrl can TOGGLE hints.
The options settings for C/C++ are located in "Text Editor/ C/C++ / IntelliSense", and the list of inline hint settings are quite a bit more limited than those listed for C#.
On vanilla Visual Studio 2022 press ctrl twice.
If you are using Visual Assist press Alt + F1
In Visual Studio, you are able to dock code windows in horizontal and vertical tab groups (something you can also do with tool windows).
However, when doing so you may end up with a lot of redundant screen space. What would be ideal would be if you could mix docking orientations for code windows. This is possible with tool windows in Visual Studio 2010. Here is an image showing the feature used for tool windows:
My question is: is it possible to get this same functionality with the code windows - i.e. being able to mix horizontal and vertical docking, like with the tool windows shown? I've heard rumours that its possible, but I've been unable to find any truth in that.
I too wish this was a naitive feature in visual studio, but there is one workaround by using the 'floating tab group' feature of visual studio
Move the visual studio main window out of the way (maybe to another monitor, or to smallest area of the monitor needed to see the tooling windows)
"Tear out" or Right Click > Float on the desired tab
Position the tab to your desire (I suggest using WinSplitRevolution, via codinghorror)
Repeat, note that you can move a tab to an existing 'floating' tab group
And voila!
There are some setbacks, some commands will pop up over the main tooling window instead of your current tab group etc. but its still pretty nice. I'm not sure if there's any changes coming in VS2012, but I haven't heard about anything related.
i am using black scheme and set up color setting for editor tooltips:
Sample preview is correct but actual result is different:
Is it possible to set up tooltip colors in Visual Studio 2010 properly?
After installing the Productivity Power Tools and following this post it is at least possible to read the signatures again, but that post gives me little hope how to fix the other color settings.
Edit: Installing CSharpIntellisencePresenter makes the Auto-Complete readable in a dark theme, see this question
I tried using Hack-It to enable the "Custom..." buttons with VS2008 and changed color settings were saved (still present after a VS restart).
But I was not changing the colors for the correct item I guess.
I am using Visual Assist and I think the 'Editor Tooltip' is not the item I want to change the colors from.
You could give it a try...
Anyone knows from which item I must change colors to affect Visual Assist tool tips when hovering a function ?
For Visual Assist tooltip I need to change Windows theme...
How do you reset the "Zoom" in VS 2010 and above back to normal?
CTRL+SCROLL WHEEL lets you zoom in/out with Visual Studio 2010/2012/2013/2015/2017, but I'd like to get back to the initial 100%.
There is a select box for this at the bottom left of the editor window - choose 100% ;)
I was unable to find a keyboard shortcut for it, though zooming in and out can be done using Ctrl + > and Ctrl + <.
Please note the horizontal scroll bar must be turned on to see the zoom level.
Tools / Options / Text Editor / All Languages / Scroll Bars
Another option (Visual Studio 2013/2015) is to use Ctrl with the mouse wheel (up to zoom in, down to zoom out).
There's a zoom control in the bottom-left of the code editor. You can pick 100% from there, or type it by hand.
In Visual Studio 2015/2017/2019 (easy to miss if using a dark theme):
You can try VSCommands extension from Visual Studio Gallery, it adds several new features around zooming in VS2010
Visual Studio 2017 has an extension "Reset Zoom" by Mads Kristensen and it adds a keyboard shortcut (Ctrl+0, Ctrl+0).
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=MadsKristensen.ResetZoom
By default, the keyboard shortcut is Ctrl+0,Ctrl+0 but can be changed to be whatever you like.
I also have R# and the default shortcut did not show up for me but manually applying it worked.
Go to Tools -> Options -> Environment -> Keyboard and look for the command View.ZoomReset to change the keyboard shortcut.
In Visual Studio Ultimate 2013, at bottom-left from screen:
If you are using latest version you can also resize the content in visual studio by selecting
ctrl+ will zoom in and ctrl- will zoom out.
to do manually goto
preference->settings
and UserSetting file will be opened in the editor change.For default zoom
window.zoomlevel:0
and to zoom in
window.zoomlevel:1,2,3......
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.