I assume the title is self explanatory. Just want to change the look of the Visual Studio 2012 not to show menu title in all capital letters.
Richard Banks posted about a registry key for just such a tweak.
Visual Studio 2012 (Full)
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\11.0\General
DWORD: SuppressUppercaseConversion
Value: 1
In PowerShell, you can run this to set that registry key and the uppercase goes away.
Set-ItemProperty -Path HKCU:\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\11.0\General -Name SuppressUppercaseConversion -Type DWord -Value 1
Visual Studio Express 2012
The above registry key is not the one that will affect Visual Studio Express 2012 RC. A comment by FormatC showed up on Banks post about the key for Express. You can find that key mentioned in Mike Gleason's answer or run the following PowerShell command to set it.
Set-ItemProperty -Path HKCU:\Software\Microsoft\VSWinExpress\11.0\General -Name SuppressUppercaseConversion -Type DWord -Value 1
Visual Studio Express 2012 for Web
Set-ItemProperty -Path HKCU:\Software\Microsoft\VWDExpress\11.0\General -Name SuppressUppercaseConversion -Type DWord -Value 1
Visual Studio 2013
Replace 11.0 with 12.0 in the registry keys above.
Visual Studio 2015 Developer Preview
Replace 11.0 with 14.0 in the registry keys above.
I have written an extension which will do this for you.
You can download it from the Visual Studio Gallery:
VSCommands for Visual Studio 2012
VSCommands for Visual Studio 2013
It can also hide main menu altogether and have it appear only on mouse over or alt key press (like in IE)
After years Microsoft has changed their mind on this feature. As of Visual Studio 2013 Update 3 RC, an option has been added to change between mixed case and upper case: Tools -> Options -> Environment -> General -> Turn off upper case in the menu bar
Obviously this is not for VS 2012 but going forward this option will be there.
Here is the notification from Brian Harry of Microsoft:
Mixed Case Menus – I know I’m going to get some feedback on this one :) This is a long standing request by a vocal portion of the VS user base since VS 2012 to change the “ALL CAPS” menus. In VS 2013 Update 3, we have added a Tools –> Options setting to control whether you see ALL CAPS or Mixed Case. The default is still ALL CAPS but, if you change it, it will persist across upgrades and will roam across your IDE instances using the VS Online roaming settings feature (if you log into VS so it knows who you are).
And for
Visual Studio Express 2012 for Windows Desktop
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\WDExpress\11.0\General
DWORD: SuppressUppercaseConversion
Value: 1
I guess the reason MS omitted any mention of Visual Studio from the keyname is that such a mention might help someone identify the key :)
The VS Commands extension can do this and is one of the most popular on the gallery. Worth checking out!
http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/a83505c6-77b3-44a6-b53b-73d77cba84c8?SRC=VSIDE
Now that Visual Studio 2015 has changed the default back to Title Case, for those crazies like me who had gotten used to ALL CAPS, you can change it back by disabling the following option:
Tools -> Options -> Environment -> General -> Apply title case styling to menu bar
Visual Studio 2015 Community Edition does not respond to the SuppressUppercaseConversion registry value.
The answer is to enable the option boflynn identified:
• Tools -> Options -> Environment -> General -> Apply title case styling to menu bar
In my case that setting was not on by default, perhaps since I ported my VS 2013 settings.
-Noel
For express use:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VSWinExpress\11.0\GeneralSuppressUppercaseConversion
Credit to FormatC
I have been using the following reg files to enable/disable the lowercasing in Visual Studio 2012 and Visual Studio 2013:
http://erwinmayer.com/dl/VS2012_ALLCAPS_Toggle.zip
http://erwinmayer.com/dl/VS2013_ALLCAPS_Toggle.zip
Just double click on VS201x_ALLCAPS_Disable.reg inside the archive to disable all caps menu titles, and VS201x_ALLCAPS_Enable.reg to re-enable them.
You can easily edit the reg files before with a text editor to see what they contain.
For Visual Studio 2012 Express for Windows Phone, use
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VPDExpress\11.0\General\SuppressUppercaseConversion
I think "VSCommands for Visual Studio 2012" is the best option for this.
Grab this plugin from here:
http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/a83505c6-77b3-44a6-b53b-73d77cba84c8
Microsoft Visual Studio Community 2019
Check the option Apply title case styling to menu bar
which can be found in Tools > Options > Environment > General
Related
How do you set Visual Studio to automatically open "the last open solution" when it starts?
Tools -> Options then change the Startup option.
More Details Check this link
In Visual Studio 2019 the option is slightly different. Select:
Tools / Options / Startup / Most recent solution
We seem to be playing who moved my cheese. In Visual Studio 2022 the setting is in a new place. It's located at Tools / Options / Environment / General
I'll add solution for Visual Studio Code: use this flag in shortcut:
"C:\Program Files\Microsoft VS Code\Code.exe" --reuse-window
VS Code command arguments
I would simply create a shortcut to your
.Sln file, and run that.
you go into tools-> options -> Environment -> StartUp.
Then there is an option in the "At Start Up" dropdown to load last loaded solution.
How do I add a shortcut to the places bar in Visual Studio 2012? I know I can add to the Favourites but can't find anywhere how to add it to the Visual Studio part.
You can do this by changing option under
Tools -> Options -> Project and Solutions -> General tab
Like below and it will look up in that folder
Hope it helps
After installing Resharper 8 on Visual Studio 2012 my TODOs are now a retina-searing blue of which this screenshot does not do justice:
I've found similar questions here and here they don't seem to apply to VS2012 and/or RS8, as there is no "Resharper Todo Item" nor any other Resharper items under the Display Items for Fonts & Colors.
Just to post a possible workaround if somebody has the same behavior - apply actions from the following article. It looks oddly but works.
Close all Visual Studio instances
Open C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio {VS
version}\Common7\IDE\Extensions\extensions.configurationchanged file
Type anything there
Save the file
Open VS and check Fonts and Colors in Tools | Options | Environment
Navigate to environment settings using Visual Studio (Tools -> Options -> Environment -> Fonts and Colors) and change the colour of the TODO items in the text editor. Scroll to the item in the "Display items" list which shows as "Resharper TODO item"
A Visual Studio crash and restart later, Resharper display items are suddenly showing up under fonts and colors. I contacted Jetbrains and apparently this was a verified bug, though that link is now dead which would lead me to believe that they fixed it, but for some reason this answer is still getting upvoted so maybe not.
Maybe the next upvoter can edit this answer or provide a comment with the current state of affairs?
This is not a Win 8.x issue; I am using Windows 7 and encountered the problem when I applied Resharper 8 to VS2013. The link that Alexander posted resolved the problem for me. I did, however, have to copy the file to My Documents, make my edit there (a simple hash symbol) and then copy it over the source location.
Adding an empty line in the file extensions.configurationchanged worked for me.
Visual studio 2013 with Resharper 10
I wass looking for quite some time now how I could see the file type icon of each file I have opened in visual studio 2012 tab well, like it was shown on previous versions of visual studio. This was completely removed from vs 12, couldn't find any option enabling this. This is something extemely usefull when having many open files.
I found that this option exists on the registry!
So you go here:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\11.0\DialogPage\Microsoft.CustomDocWell.Options
and change the IconInTabs property from false to True!
File type icons are displayed again next to each tab!!!!
Edit: In order for this to work you must have installed Productivity Power Tools 2012 plugin
I am finding it really hard to code using the black theme given in the visual studio 2012 IDE. Is there anyway i could get back the older grey theme or is there anyway i could make it look a bit more whiter ?
Tools -> Options -> Environment -> General -> Color Theme
or you could try to use Visual Studio 2012 Color Theme Editor , it has pre built themes too.
For Visual Studio 2015 and later versions
Tools->Options->General->ColorTheme
Change theme and Press OK.