I have difficulties seeing my Visual Studio 2012 window is active. Is there any way I can make the Visual Studio 2012 window behave like a standard window.
Visual Studio 2012 behavior (I can't tell the difference):
Active:
Inactive:
Standard window behavior (much easier to see when active):
Active:
Inactive:
I would like to avoid using the operating system high contrast setting if at all possible.
As #mandaleeka suggested I ended up using the Visual Studio 2012 Color Theme Editor extension.
But an even better highlighting option in my case is to change the "Main Window -> Caption" -> "Active" -> "Background" color.
Here is my resulting theme:
One workaround to this is to install the Visual Studio 2012 Color Theme Editor extension and modify one of the built in themes to change the inactive window border color.
After installing the extension, go to Tools -> Customize Colors. Select a theme to copy colors from, give it a name, and hit "Create". In the color editor, scroll down to the "Main Window" section and under "Inactive" change Border to something that stands out.
Here is an example:
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The background around the Layout Editor in Android Studio is dark grey. I think it used to be white. Anyway, I would like to make it white again, but I can't find the setting. The reason I want to change it is so that I can make nicer looking print screen images to use on StackOverflow or app descriptions.
Note: I'm not talking about changing the theme or the code editor colors. These questions have already been answered here:
How to change or add theme to Android Studio?
How do I change Android Studio editor's background color?
how to change Android Studio terminal background color
Updated Answer
Android Studio 3.0 has a Screenshot menu item. Right click the design area and choose Save Screenshot.
From there you can make a screenshot with a transparent background.
I like the Dark Color Theme for VS2012 but it really annoys me that it doesn´t apply to the Project Properties.
And I can´t find the Properties to change the Color in the Visual-Studio-ColorTheme Editor...
Is it even possible to change these Colours?
GoTo: Tools -> Options -> Environment (General)
you will get the option to change color, only if you've installed the Visual-Studio Color theme editor
If I set the zoom of a tab to 120%, then when opening new tabs, Visual Studio 2012 should open them with a 120% zoom factor and not 100% (the default).
But when reopening, Visual Studio the Zoom Percentage should be preserved (120%).
Is there is any way to solve the issue?
If you are simply zooming so the text in your editor is bigger, then why not just increase the font size?
Open TOOLS -> OPTIONS, under the 'Environment' tab select 'Fonts and Colors', and change the font size to whatever you want.
--edit--
As #Anovative pointed out in his comment and answer below, there is now a way to set default zoom within Visual Studio 2013 (and subsequent versions I'd assume).
Go to Tools > Extensions and Updates > then get the extension
VSCommands for Visual Studio 2013 ...if you're using VS2013
Then Tools > VSCommands12 > General > click the button Open Configuration.
Then close out of the Options window and in the VSC - Config tab that should be open go to the Zoom option and set your default zoom level. This will apply to all editor tabs. You can still zoom in or out of individual tabs as desired. But your default zoom will be preserved even after closing VS and will be restored upon starting VS.
This extension solve the problem
http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/71870f0e-87bb-4a5f-8abd-e8e5e0ccb900
These tools do not solve the whole problem, but may help:
http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/71870f0e-87bb-4a5f-8abd-e8e5e0ccb900?SRC=VSIDE
http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/6a7a0b57-7059-470d-bcfa-60ceb78dc752/
Maybe this also helps:
Visual Studio 2010 default zoom level
Considering this Default Zoom question, the whole problem is not solvable (for VS up to 2010) :-/. From my point of view this is a really missing feature.
Edit: Solve the Post from Aditya Patil the problem?
The icon below shows at the top of the vertical scrollbar in Visual Studio 2012's text editor. When I drag it down, another page shows behind the current visible page. It looks like a copy of it. (I am using dark theme)
What is it used for? I don't know what the feature is called, therefore I couldn't search for it. I am not sure if it's native to VS 2012 or it's from one of the VS add-ons I am using.
Sometimes the icon disappears. Why?
It's for split viewing of a file. So you can view part of the file and edit another part.
It's a common feature in advanced text editors.
I'm not a fan of both the dark and light color themes offered in Visual Studio 2012.
How can I change colors of the title bar, menu bar, tool bars, etc to make them look like the ones in Visual Studio 2010?
The blue theme has been added back in Visual Studio 2012 Update 2, no extensions required.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2797912
Download and install the Color Theme Editor Extension 2012 which works with VS2012.
(It allows you to apply a predefined theme or customise the theme for yourself - but you can choose the 'Blue' theme for a VS2010 style)
(edit: Or use the 'Blue' theme that is now built into VS2012 as of Update 2)
I wrote a blog post explaining in detail how to make VS 2012 look like VS 2010 as much as possible. I will summarize it here.
Replace the new monochrome icons with the old ones and make the menu icons lowercase.
For this you need both the 2010 and 2012 versions installed and the Visual Studio Icon Patcher tool. Start the tool (it's a cmd line application) and enter extract, then inject and finally menus.
Change the color theme to blue.
Download the Visual Studio 2012 Color Theme Editor, go to "Tools - Customize Colors" and select the blue theme.
Final result:
It is not exactly like VS2010 but it gets pretty damn close.