We have a group of developers that share the same visual studio on a dev account. I want to be able to change the theme on my computer only.
When changing the theme (Tools->Options->Environment,General), everyone tied to that account has their theme changed as well. They prefer white, but I can't stare at that on 3 screens for 8 hours. Kills my eyes. I have to have the dark theme.
After googling this for the last hour, I haven't found anything specific to this question. Is it a bug? Or a Windows 10 thing?
I figured it out. My Google Foo was weak this morning.
In Tools -> Options -> Environment. If you look down in the sublist under Environment, you will see Synchronized Settings. Go there, then simply turn off the Appearance checkbox and you are good to go... no more screaming co-workers :)
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Was wondering if anyone is familiar with this issue...
I'm using VS 2015 Community in a VMWare virtual machine (Win10) with some C# solution and today all of a sudden most the code disappears, except for a few variable names. Strangely enough this only happens on the Dark theme, not on the white or blue theme.
Switching between themes, closing/reopening solution, etc. didn't help. This never happened before and I've been using VS2015 in the VM for weeks without problems. Does anyone know of a fix for this?
Ok, I found the problem! The text scaling was somehow accidentally switched to 110% and the font I'm using obviously is not OK with this. Switching back to 100% fixed it. What's odd though is that it works even with scaled text on white/blue theme with same font.
I started facing the weird problem recently on my new laptop.
I installed a fresh copy of Windows 8.1 and then Visual Studio Ultimate 2013.
It worked fine for the first few hours, but the next time I opened it, it did not show the UI elements in the XAML Designer view. There's no error, the XAML code is perfectly alright and then on hovering over the supposed-to-be-visible elements, their outline is visible as well as selectable.
Surprisingly this is the case only with all new Windows Store Projects I open or create. The Windows Phone App Designer View works perfectly fine.
I reinstalled Visual Studio a couple of times and at last even formatted the OS and reinstalled it, but the problem still persists.
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Posted by Varun Mashru on 5/23/2014 at 3:54 AM on Visual Studio Feedback Forum
Surprisingly and fortunately, I found the solution just two days ago.
It bit of a bummer but that's what it is.
Its nothing to do with the VS setup or the OS.
The first thing to notice here is that it happens with notebooks only.
The REASON??
Because notebooks do not have completely dedicated GPUs. These GPUs
act as secondary processors for the onboard graphics solution which is
directly connected to the display. Hence they fire up only when
needed.
My notebook Dell Inspiron 15 3537 -- Core i5 4200U (Intel HD Graphics
4400 onboard) + AMD Radeon HD 8670M has got a switchable graphics
solution. Hence the software chooses as to which GPU does the
weight-lifting.
The power settings when cranked up to the max indicate that the AMD
GPU must be the one that should take the lead.
And in the case of VS it does not happen properly (Don't know why??).
Maybe the UI components cant decide that which GPU processor to choose
or whatever.
So the simple workaround I found was to bring the graphics settings
down by just a notch. Which is selecting the 'Optimize Performance'
option in the Switchable Graphics instead of 'Maximize Performance'
field in the power plans.
And voila, It works perfectly fine!!!!
Share this with everyone who has freaked out for months on this
issue!! :)
I was wondering if someone found a way to keep a Windows form Application designed with the Windows 7 Aero theme to keep the Aero theme when the theme on the computer is switched to Classic. When a user switches there theme to classic all of the controls look like pre windows xp style. Thanks for any help anyone can provide
Corey's comment is spot-on, however programs still shouldn't look "bad" when in classic mode (Office 2003 looks better, actually), so I suggest making some visual tweaks to your program :)
Can you post a screenshot so we can provide some guidance?
Note that in future this will be a non-issue because under Windows 8 themes cannot be disabled.
I read a post by Joshua Kerievsky about 'Limited Red Time' Link
His org. Industrial Logic as part of a training module, has a screen where you upload an archive. In return, the screen shows you a graph of how much time were you in the red state vs the green state. It also hooks up with Resharper and annotates points at which the specific refactorings were performed.
The resulting graph gives some vital insights to self-assess your skills/behavior. e.g. I am myself guilty of getting into a red state and not giving in to a revert+retry, instead hacking away at it for a few hours before I get it to green (if I am lucky).
From my limited exposure, it looks to be proprietary. Is there such a visualization plugin for Visual Studio that is available ?
You could try looking at Beacons, a VS 2010 extension which shows you detailed information about your testing session. A demo of it can be found here.
Must admit that I´ve not used this myself, as I only found out about it the other day whilst on holiday. But it looks promising enough, and it's free.
http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/B5EC8514-E251-41D2-8728-C1D0F5FD067D is an extension that builds timesheets based on your TFS activities... possibly you could set it up to support this? Of course if you're not using TFS then I doubt it would work.
I had a little bit of budget left at year end and I wanted to start a little skunk works project to display build status what everyone was working on (our team is aobut 10 folks all told). I am thinking to buy a 47" LCD HD TV and drive it from a small pc via a browser/.NET web application.
I was going to build the software over the christmas break since we are closed for 2 weeks starting this Friday. I thought I would solicit advise/feedback on what other teams had done. a lot of the tools we use SVN, Mantis have RSS feeds that I was thinking to render. Is this the way to go ?
Thanks for any feedback in advance.
A friend of mine is teaching himself how to work with Arduino so that he can build a computer-controlled LED sculpture for Burning Man next year. His first project? Using Arduino to control a little array of red and green LEDs so that everyone on his team can look up at it and see if the build is broken and who broke it.
But really, unless that's a road you're interested in going down, in your case I'd write a simple WinForms app that used a FileSystemWatcher to check for changes in the RSS file, an XSLT transform to turn it into HTML, and a WebBrowser to display it. If you know XSLT and understand the contents of your RSS feed, that's about 2-3 hours of work tops.
Would it really benefit your team in any way?
I'd rather brought something like a table hockey machine to make lunch time more fun.
I would check out the existing solutions first. There is a good summary at http://www.build-doctor.com/2009/08/18/big-visible-continuous-integration/ and http://www.lostechies.com/blogs/joshuaflanagan/archive/2009/08/28/big-visible-teamcity.aspx looks interesting.
It all depends on what Continuous integration server you have.
I'd say stick with RSS. Tried and true and real easy to work with especially in a .NET environment.