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!
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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.
I forgot the name of the feature but I read once, that VS 2013 is able to automatically copy the CSS changes from the IE Developer Toolbar back to the css in your project...
How is that function called?
is there any (free or not free) tool to adopt this in VS 2012?
The feature is Browserlink with Web Essentials. It is not available in VS 2012.
I have visual studio 2013, latest resharper and latest visual assist. I install visual assist because visual assist intellisense and code colouring features are way better than resharper and I just cant live without it. I install resharper because resharper have a lot of practical productivity tools that visual assist doesnt provide. The problem I have with this setup is that visual assist intellisense features is disable even after I disable resharper intellisense features.
My question is, how can I enable visual assist intellisense features without uninstalling resharper?
Thanks.
You can disable Resharper 5 and newer versions by using the Suspend button in
Tools > Options > Resharper
Version 2001 of Visual Assist X supports Visual Studio 2013 RC only.
http://www.wholetomato.com/support/history.asp
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.
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.