After uninstalling VS2012, Blend for Visual Studio 2012 is still there (both in Start Menu and in Program Files (x86)\Visual Studio 11\Blend), even after I ran the installer with /uninstall /force (which removes all optional components). How can I remove it from my system? Is there an installer for Blend?
I think I might have found a way:
In C:\ProgramData\Package Cache\{57F20F04-014D-453F-B6A3-AE9485C4DFAB}v5.0.30709.0\packages\Blend_Core, right-click Blend_Core.msi and click Uninstall.
In C:\ProgramData\Package Cache\{532DBCC8-9468-435C-AEF6-30B7F50735A2}v5.0.30709.0\packages\Blend_LP, right-click Blend_LP.msi and click Uninstall.
I was more concerned with removing Blend from the start menu than removing it from my harddrive (because I kept opening blend accidentally when I want VS).
To do this, type blend in the start menu. Right-click on the Blend option that comes up, and click click 'Open file location' (For me, this opened C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Visual Studio 2013). Delete the link to blend from that location and it will stop appearing in the start menu.
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Recently I upgraded from Windows 10 to Windows 11. But now when I open Android Studio only a blank file icon appears on the taskbar.
Is there any way to retrieve the original Android Studio icon?
I have also checked that the .ico file exists in C:\Program Files\Android\Android Studio\bin\studio.ico
I did this and it showed for me:
From start menu: right-click its icon.
Click More -> Open file location.
Right-lick the shortcut and choose Open file location.
From the opened directory, open the file studio.ico with any app.
And suddenly the taskbar refreshed and it showed.
You can click on Start and search for Android Studio ,then on the right side you will get an option of pin to taskbar, click on it. Now Android Studio icon will appear in Taskbar.
But why this happened?
This usually happens when the location of file has changed or it has been deleted! But why this happens during updating to Windows 11 in some PCs, only Microsoft knows!
This is what's working for me:
From start menu: right-click the icon.
Click More -> Open file location.
Right-lick the shortcut and open Properties.
Change Icon -> OK -> Close.
Do step 3 & 4 again, because the first time didn't change the icon (in my case).
I installed Visual Studio 2017 Professional on Windows 10. Then using the installer I saw that VS 2017 Enterprise was "available" so I installed it. Now all of VS (Blend, VS, etc.) are duplicated in the start menu. I would like to be able to remove the duplicate entries in the start menu but I don't seem to have that option. Does anyone know how to remove all of the "...(2)" entries in the start menu? And related why does VS installer create these duplicate entries?
Right click on the duplicate item in the start menu > more > go to file location. There will be shortcuts titled the same as the items on your start menu, just delete the shortcuts and your start menu will reflect instantly.
Or goto :
C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs
and remove them directly
I was trying to change the font of Android Studio. I selected a font and pressed Apply Changes button of the Dialog and from then onward my android studio looks like this.
I re-install the software which also doesn't solve the problem.
I also tried to change the theme font from the xml file located at C:\Users\tuser\.AndroidStudio1.5\config\colors\Obsidian\ which is also not working.
I Read, How to reset android studio font, and tried pressing shift twice and ctrl + shift + a, the search dialog appears like this
So, How can i restore the font?
Maybe this will help (I see you're using windows):
Go to your User Folder - on Windows 7/8 this would be:
[SYSDRIVE]:\Users[your username] (ex. C:\Users\JohnDoe)
In this folder there should be a folder called .AndroidStudio (notice
the period at the start - so on some OSes it would be hidden).
Delete this folder (or better yet, move it to a backup location - so
you can return it if something goes wrong).
This should reset your Android Studio settings to default.
The answer is from:
How to reset Android Studio by free3dom author.
Okay, the lack of color on VS2012 is gross.
Is there someplace I can get a theme pack or something for it so that it actually looks reasonable? I really liked the look of VS2010. However, the new one reminds me way too much of 1984.
While we are at it, is there anyway to have it stop shouting at me? ALL CAPS menus are pretty hard to read. [ note: caps was resolved, thanks Konamiman]
Yes, luckily you can revert the Visual Studio 2012 ALL CAPS menus to normal menus by hacking the registry:
Launch regedit and navigate to
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\11.0\General
Create a DWORD value named SuppressUppercaseConversion with value 1.
NOTE: As explained in the answer pointed by Yahoo Serious, the VisualStudio part on the registry key name should be changed to VSWinExpress for Visual Studio Express, and to VWDExpress for Visual Studio Express for Web.
UPDATE:
I have applied this hack in another machine and at first it did not work. It turned out that I had selected the key name from this response by double clicking it, then copied it, then pasted it in regedit. Well, by doing so I had inadvertently created the key with a trailing space in the name! And hence it did not work.
So, if you apply this hack and it seems to not work, ensure that there are no trailing spaces in the key name.
New Theme editor Specifically for 2012:
http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/366ad100-0003-4c9a-81a8-337d4e7ace05
Comes w/ VS 2010 style blue and a few others...
Here is a shot of my VS2012 install that almost looks like the familiar 2010 we are all used to. It makes me feel normal again!
Here is exactly how I did this, step-by-step:
1) Close all instances of Visual Studio
2) Download vsip and extract it to a temp directory. (as of 1/3/2013 the current version is 1.5.2)
3) Open up a command prompt with "Run as administrator"
4) Go to the temp directory and run VSIP.exe - This will run an interactive program that accepts commands.
4a) Type "backup --version=2012" - This will backup all of your VS2012 UI dlls, just in case something gets messed up and you want to uninstall VSIP.
4b) Type "extract" - This will extract all of the old icons from your installation of VS2010 (per VS2010 license VSIP can not distribute those icons so we have to have a local install to pull them from).
4c) Type "inject" - This will inject all of the old 2010 icons from the previous step into the VS2012 DLLs.
4d) Type "menus -n" - This will change the menus so they are NOT ALL CAPITALIZED!
5) Download and install NiceVS - do not download the one dated 10/14 or you will be missing icons. As of 1/3/2013 I downloaded the file named "NiceVS.0.8.1.1 Beta.Full.vsix".
6) Download and install VS2012 Color Theme Editor - The next time you start VS2012 select the "Blue" theme from the color select window.
Now you should have a nice install of VS2012 that looks like my screen shot above! It takes three different applications to patch that hideous UI but it's certainly workable now! If you don't have VS2010 installed on the same machine as VS2012 then you will have to run 4b on a machine with VS2010 and then copy the VSIP Images directory to your 2012 development machine.
Update: If you install "VS 2012 Update 1" after running these steps you will need to re-run step 4c from the VSIP admin prompt (or all of step 4 if you didn't keep the extract of the VS2010 images). The file menu icons and color scheme stay as they are but the update reverts the icons in the solution explorer back to the ugly ones. Re-running the VSIP inject fixes it right up!
I feel your pain, and have been checking daily for a solution. I've now discovered this site, which includes a theme editor, as well as drumroll a VS2010 theme for VS2012!
http://bchavez.bitarmory.com/archive/2012/08/27/modify-visual-studio-2012-dark-and-light-themes.aspx
Edit - I just noticed that Brian Chavez already posted the same link as me. However, I don't think it included a premade 2010 theme until today.
Edit 2 - Another theme editor - http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/366ad100-0003-4c9a-81a8-337d4e7ace05
AND ICONS!!! - http://vsip.codeplex.com/
http://studiostyl.es/
The themes for 2010 work for 2012 as well
This extension was just released a couple of days ago:
Visual Studio 2012 Color Theme Editor
If you want to change the VS shell environment themes in Visual Studio 2012, try this utility:
Modify Visual Studio 2012 Dark (and Light) Themes
Source Code
The quick option to look is VSColorOutput extension for VS2012. Just look at Tools->Extensions and NUGet package will help you to locate it asap.
Another option would be downloading and Visual Studio Color Schemes. http://studiostyles.info/ . Here is a link to Scott Gu's blog which describes how to apply your preferred schema.
Back when I had ReSharper 5 my files would have all kinds of syntax highlighting and a bar next to the scrollbar to the right. It was wonderful because it would highlight redundant imports and possible code smells, as well mark things in the bar next to the scroll bar.
With ReSharper 6 I don't have any of that. I have to actually have cursor on what I want to change and wait for the pencil or light bulb to show up. Is this how ReSharper 6 is by default or do I have to reinstall it?
First make sure ReSharper is acutally activated. If it is, there should be a ReSharper top level menu entry in Visual Studio at the top.
If it is, make sure "Enable Code Analysis" is turned on in the ReSharper settings.
If it is not, enable ReSharper in the Visual Studio settings (Tools->Options). There should be an extra entry "ReSharper" in the list on the left side. Click the "Resume" button.
If you don't have such an entry in your Visual Studio settings, ReSharper is either not or not correctly installed.
Maybe the settings were not taken from the version 5 folder to the version 6 one. Try the following:
Make sure you close Visual Studio.
Go to:
Note: this folder is from a Windows 7 machine, since you didn't provide information on which version of visual studio you are using I'm putting 'x'
"c:\Users*your user*\AppData\Roaming\JetBrains\ReSharper\v5.x\vsxx.x"
In there you'll find a UserSettings.xml file open it for edit.
Look for the "SeverityTable" node. Select it and copy it.
Paste it on the same file that you'll find on the "c:\Users*your user*\AppData\Roaming\JetBrains\Resharper\v6.0\vsxx.x" folder. I recommend making a backup of the file before doing that.
Reopen visual studio. Resharper should be indicating all the recommendations and smells as it did before you updated it.
Hope this helps.