I am trying to figure out what the element name for the tooltip is in Visual Studio 2010 so that I can change the style using the extension found here. Anyone know what that is? I am using the default theme which seems to have a white to light grey gradient on it. This is less than optimal since the text for the functions are also white.
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In a more general question (and perhaps better), is there anything that maps the names as they are found in the theme to where they are in the IDE.
After switching through some settings, I now believe it is not the IDE theme and is instead in the settings, but can't find which field it is.
Adianbanks is correct go to Tools -> Options -> Fonts and Colors. The field you posted looks like Signature Help Tooltip Background. It has been overlooked on several of the dark background themes that I have tried. Also, make sure to change the Item Background color.
If you go to Tools -> Options -> Fonts and Colors, you need to change the combo box at the top to Editor Tooltip to change this style. In my Visual Studio though, I can only change the font, not the colours,
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My visual studios seems to have just randomly broken.
The text editor does not seem to change colors at all upon the theme being changed.
for example, if the theme is dark the surrounding windows will all format to the correct color but the editor itself remains the "light" theme. It doesn't even respond to the blue theme.
I can manually edit the colors, but that seems to be all I can do right now.
I just had this problem where no matter which theme I selected the text editor would be light as you say.
I resolved this by going to Tools > Options > Environment > Fonts and Colors and with Text Editor selected in the top drop down I clicked Use Defaults and that switched it back to being of the theme which you selected in General.
I'm using Visual Studio 2015 along with the Theme Color Editor. I have chosen the dard solarized color for the environment. When working with the XAML Designer, when I select a control, the Properties Window displays a solid white color in the bottom half, which is really annoying considering that everything is dark.
Is there a way I can change this color? I tried to search colors in the theme editor plugin, but I couldn't find any setting corresponding to that...
Thank you
So, getting a clue from the link Sam Khan provided, I figured it out. You have to change Cider -> ListBackground color in the theme editor plugin (You can choose the eyedropper to choose a color from the GUI)
As Farzad said, Cider → ListBackground is important as it affects the items, but Environment → ToolWindowBackground is also used by the Properties window, which is the color behind all properties.
Note: This window can't handle transparency on its background, unlike others (for those using MoeIDE or ClaudiaIDE).
I've just downloaded Visual Studio Color Theme and a dark color scheme for Visual Studio. This is how my VS looks now:
But I don't like the tooltip. I saw this question on StackOverflow, an I would like to make the tooltip look like the one in the marked answer. (Also the font size is not chosen by me, I don't know why is it like that)
Please help me!
Visual Studio allows you to change it. You can experiment different backgrounds from Tools->Options->Environment->Fonts and Colors->Signature Help Tooltip Background.
Also before you import theme, you can edit the font from the theme file.
I did install the "son of obsidian" theme in Visual Studio. Today, I used the integrated profiler and could hardly read the per-line percentage and the highlighting was a bit off. No doubt this is because of the theme.
I have tried to find the relevant config entry within the options, but I had no luck so far. Where can I configure the background color of the percentages and the highlight color?
Here is a screenshot to illustrate my problem:
Meanwhile, I tried to change it using the xml File (.vssettings) directly, bit no luck so far. I changed all the colors in the xml to red but the background color of the bar won't change. The textcolor is the same as the normal textcolor in the editor. If that is white or a light gray, the profiling information is hardly legible.
I know this is an old question but for anyone else who happens to have this problem here is the fix:
In VS2013: Tools -> Options -> Environment -> Fonts and Colors.
Under the settings for Text Editor in the Display Items box, you can change the margin by editing the Indicator Margin.
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Change background color of Solution Explorer in Visual Studio
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I really don't like the "Light" theme of VS 2012. I've managed to change a few things to make it better but one thing is still annoying me - the fact that the solution explorer background is a light grey colour. Is there a way to change this back to white? I can't see an entry for Solution Explorer in Options > Environment > Fonts and Colors, so how can I change this? Is it stored in a theme file somewhere?
(Please note I'm not looking to do this programmatically, so this is not a dupe of the existing similar-sounding questions)
I've found that easiest solution is to use this Microsoft-developed Visual Studio 2012 Color Theme Editor and just select the Blue theme to effectively get the VS 2010 colours back:
http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/366ad100-0003-4c9a-81a8-337d4e7ace05
Saves digging around for hours in long lists of UI elements. You just select another preset theme and you're done :)
EDIT : Here are steps using the VS2012 Color Theme Editor:
Tools --> Customize Colors
New Theme --> create a new theme from one of the ready made themes, hit Create
Hover over your new Custom Theme, hit Edit Theme
Magical Step: Directly under the theme tab, click the 5th button "Show All Elements", here you can find what you're looking for
TreeView --> Background, this changes the color of the Solution Explorer
Environment --> ToolWindowBackground, color for background of Team Explorer (my pet peeve, since the contrast on this UI usually needs tweaking between controls and window)
UPDATE
Visual Studio 2012 Update 3 now includes the old "Blue" theme by default, so if you update to this version you can easily select the old blue theme without jumping throught he hoops above, if that's all you wanted to achieve.
Program Manager Cathy Sullivan is wrong
Use this Utility
http://bchavez.bitarmory.com/archive/2012/08/27/modify-visual-studio-2012-dark-and-light-themes.aspx
Use Category TreeView
Unfortunately at this time you cannot change the background color of Solution Explorer beyond what the Light and Dark themes offer.
Thanks,
Cathy Sullivan
Program Manager, Visual Studio
UPDATE: There is now a theme editor which should give you the exact control you are looking for (which I've noticed is what #Nick G has suggested, so +1 to him, will leave this to acknowledge that.
http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/366ad100-0003-4c9a-81a8-337d4e7ace05
(further details in hanselman blog)
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Preface: I know you specifically said white but after a little adjustment I find the dark really quite good, especially if you have a dark theme. I've switched my previous dark theme (wekeroad) for the rather brashly named but subtle looking Super awesome fun time one.
Tools | Options | General | then change Color theme to Dark.
You can see solution explorer in background above. I would imagine these options might expand or extend in the future.