Are there any add-ins available that let you customize the UI look and feel for Visual Studio 2012 IDE?
This extension gives you basic control over the VS2012 colour palette:
http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/366ad100-0003-4c9a-81a8-337d4e7ace05
Unfortunately there's no control over icons, appearance/roundness of windows etc in this extension however.
Visual Studio 2012 Color Theme Editor is for you, as Daniel said.
There is also an open source project that can restore VS 2010 icons in VS 2012 :
Visual Studio Icon Patcher.
I wouldn't use it anyways, as it's more a hack, than a real solution.
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Architecture menu in visual studio 2012 Premium does not work. It is showing me in disable mode.I checked in customize menu but toolbar added in Disable form. I can not generate the "Visualize Code Dependencies on Dependency Graphs".
Is there any option without upgrading Visual studio 2012 from Premium to Ultimate Architecture menu work.?
No, it is an Ultimate only tool.
Architecture menu in Visual Studio show only with Microsoft Visual Studio Ultimate edition.To use this option/feature need to buy Microsoft Visual Studio Ultimate edition.
Cannot find Font Manager in Microsoft Visual Studio Ultimate 2012 under Tools Menu as shown here.
Any idea where I can find it in Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 (Ultimate)?
The Font Manager you refer to is for Blend, not for Visual Studio.
I have VS 2012 and 2013 installed on my system.
I have a 2012 project that I want to get pulled up in VS 2013 when I double-click it from the Windows Explorer.
Is this possible?
If you only want specific slns to open in 2013, you can open the sln file in a text editor, and change the line
# Visual Studio 2012
to
# Visual Studio 2013
Note that it will ask you to upgrade the projects to 2013 when you open it for the first time. If you want all of 2013's compiler features you will have to upgrade, but if you chose not to it will still load in the 2013 IDE and you get some of the IDE related features.
Right click any solution file and select Open with... option. Use Visual Studio Version Selector as the default program to use for Visual Studio solution files.
In Visual Studio 2010, there was a Create GUID entry in the Tools menu. I used it all the time for SharePoint Development.
Has Tools > Create GUID been removed in Visual Studio 2012? I don't see it and resorted to Powershell [System.Guid]::NewGuid().ToString()
No it's there... at least it's available in Visual Studio 2012 Ultimate.
If missing try adding it via Tools -> External Tools and add:
%Installation Path%\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\Common7\Tools\guidgen.exe
EDIT: It's probably installed with Visual C++.
If you have Resharper installed you can just type nguid and hit Tab inside Visual Studio. You can even choose format you want.
I seem to be missing all of the cool CSS editor features that were in VS 2012 RC. For example, the color picker. Is it because I am using the evaluation version? Or is there a switch to turn them on in the release?
You need the "Web Essentials 2012" extension from "Tools > Extensions and Updates > Online > Visual Studio Gallery." A restart of VS2012 will be required.
Hope it helps!