How should I apply a dark theme to Visual Studio 2015 IDE. Is it a setting I could turn on? There used to be a VS settings file in the previous version like 2008 and 2010
Tools->Options->Environment->General->Color theme: Dark
Tools->Options->Environment->Color theme
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I would like to create a customized toolbar with larger icons in Visual Studio 2022 IDE, not Visual Studio Code. Currently using Community edition but would like to do the same for Professional or Enterprise editions.
It seems like you can only add toolbars and commands and change the order of command buttons but there is no way to increase the toolbar button sizes?
I tried the same for Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio 18, but it seems to share the same UI for toolbar customization with the same limiting options as VS2022.
After a reboot, the Visual Studio editor fallbacks to Courier font. Does anyone have any idea of why this is happening and what you can do about it?
I'm using the following version of VS:
Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2022 (64-bit) - Version 17.1.3
I'm running the following version of Windows:
Windows 10 Enterprise, Version 21H2
This seems to be problem for some people, including myself. It is already reported at the Visual Studio Developer Community. tl;dr - this workaround is the fastest - reinstall Cascadia Mono via choco.
They changed the default font in Visual Studio 2022 to Cascadia Mono.
To answer your question why this suddenly breaks - the root cause seeems unclear as of this moment, but that font gets corrupted or removed and VS reverts back to some other font, in my case Courier. Repairing Visual Studio or reinstalling the font is required.
Or even easier, if you like the prior default font more, Consolas, just use that.
I've followed this guide to enable dark theme in VS2017 with the high contrast Windows theme: How do I use visual studio 2012 dark theme with windows 8 high contrast theme?
Works great.
Now I'm trying with SQL Mangement Studio 2017.
I have enabled the Dark Theme in C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SQL Server\140\Tools\Binn\ManagementStudio\ssms.pkgundef
But it looks like it's being overruled by the High Contrast theme from Windows:
https://i.stack.imgur.com/KBGE2.png
I've been digging around in RegEdit and found the themes of Sql Studio in:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\SQL Server Management Studio\14.0_Config\Themes
https://i.stack.imgur.com/51MhW.png
There are 4 themes.
a5c004b4-2d4b-494e-bf01-45fc492522c7 is the High Contrast theme, and its is locked
I've tried the following without luck:
Delete a5c004b4-2d4b-494e-bf01-45fc492522c7 -> it just gets created again when sql mangement studio starts
Replace its the contents of a5c004b4-2d4b-494e-bf01-45fc492522c7 with the dark theme: 1ded0138-47ce-435e-84ef-9ec1f439b749 -> it just gets overwritten once the program starts
Disable it just like the Dark Theme was in ssms.pkgundef -> sql studio cannot start
It looks like the theme is being inject on program start, so maybe there's a way to disable that?
any suggestions :P?
You can import custom fonts and color settings in SSMS. Just follow this guide:
https://blogs.sentryone.com/aaronbertrand/making-ssms-pretty-my-dark-theme/
I was able to get a nice dark theme back to SSMS 2016 while Windows 10 is set to High Contrast by simply downloading and importing the theme (vssettings) from here: https://mikesdatawork.wordpress.com/2017/07/07/dark-ssms-theme-ssms-2017/
This link also included detailed instructions on how to do this. Hope this helps
You will need to edit the ShellColors.pkgdef, Microsoft.VisualStudio.Platform.WindowManagement.pkgdef, and EditorColors.pkgdef files in the "\Common7\IDE\CommonExtensions\Platform" folder of the ssms installation folder. You can copy the settings for the dark theme over to the high contrast settings. These files will most likely get overridden every time you update ssms, so be aware that you will need to do this every time you update or will need a script to update the files.
My eyeballs are bleeding from the brightness. Is there any way to get a dark theme in Anypoint Studio that doesn't look bad or require hours of configuration? I know about the dark theme in the preferences, but it screws up the colors in the editor so it's unusable. I'm in Anypoint 5.4.3
My Feature Request was finally approved and progressed, you can now use the dark theme here :) https://docs.mulesoft.com/release-notes/studio/anypoint-studio-7.9-with-4.3-runtime-release-notes
Find it here: https://docs.mulesoft.com/release-notes/studio/anypoint-studio-7.9-with-4.3-runtime-release-notes
ARCHIVE: The easiest way is: Preferences - General - Appearance and selecting the Dark option. But it does have visual bugs. You could apply some extra configurations to that Theme to make it more usable, but you will still have the visual bugs inside the components like HTTP Listeners.
We could start a voting for this "Idea" so Mulesoft will consider a Dark theme release.
https://support.mulesoft.com/s/ideas#087340000005w1fAAA
I have Anypoint Studio 5.4.1.
Go to Window > Preferences > General > Appearance, then choose the Dark theme from the Theme drop down:
Anypoint Studio Themes screenclip
To install a new Anypoint Studio Theme, navigate to the Help menu in Studio, then select Install New Software. Use the drop-down to select Anypoint Studio Themes, then browse the dozens of available themes. Follow the steps to download, then relaunch Studio with your new theme.
You can install dark theme from Help-->Install New Software
Anypoint Studio 7.9 enables users to use a dark theme:
https://docs.mulesoft.com/release-notes/studio/anypoint-studio-7.9-with-4.3-runtime-release-notes
In Anypoint Studio 7.x.x, select from toolbar window-> preferences and then navigate to theme as shown in the image below.
I can't find that, is there a problem? Please I can't find it not even in the C# or C++ or javascript, please HELP!
Visual Studio Express 2015 for Windows targets the Universal Windows Platform, not WinForms. For WinForms you'll need Visual Studio Express 2015 for Desktop or Visual Studio 2015 Community Edition.
If you meet it's licensing requirements I'd recommend the Community Edition.
See: https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/products/visual-studio-express-vs.aspx