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Visual Studio 2013 Theme change on 1 computer only

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 :)

Does Google Cardboard SDK work with Unity 5?

I have converted my working project from Unity into Unity 5 and now the stereoscopic display doesnt work.
It seems like the stereoscopic effect doesnt work. The display is split in the middle, and the shader is applied, but it seems like there is only once camera. Like there are no eye cameras.
The weirdest thing is that everything works perfectly in the editor, but when I run it on device it seems like the cameras are disabled.
I went through and tried everything in the "known issues" in Cardboard SDK Release Notes, but nothing works.
Has anyone succesfully run a Cardboard game on Unity 5?

Yes, I have done. Mine isn't big one but has major things that can be said to be using UNITY features as well. I cant predict your problem as such but Answer to this post is certainly YES.

I don't think that anyone has posted this yet, but it appears that the SDK is currently broken in Unity 5.
From: Cardboard SDK Release Notes
Unity 5 rendering issues: As of Unity build 5.0.0f4, the following steps should be taken to fix or ameliorate any rendering issues, such as an all-black screen, flashing textures, or non-stereo views:
Enable the Development Build option in the Build dialog. This seems to fix various rendering glitches, like flashing textures.
The root cause of the rendering glitches is under analysis, with assistance from Unity.
I have also found that the app has rendering issues when it initially runs when you hit "Build and Run". Closing the app from the task switcher and restarting seems to resolve the issue.

Visual Studio 2013 Designer View not showing the UI Elements

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.

#JTIM: Sure!!
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!! :)

WPF: can't resize window without horrible visual effects

I'm trying to learn WPF (I worked a lot with WinForms but I'm kinda new to WPF) and I have a problem when resizing my windows.
There are horrible visual effects.
Here's what's expected:
http://data.imagup.com/12/1130871175.jpg
Here's what I get:
http://data.imagup.com/12/1130871187.jpg or http://data.imagup.com/11/1130871194.jpg
I'm not doing anything particular, even an empty window is not rendering correctly when resizing !
I do not have any problem when window is maximized.
What's the problem ?
Windows 7 32-bit / .Net 3.5 / Raden HD5850

I saw this same issue 2 days ago on our WPF project when someone on our team updated their Catalyst drivers.
Rollback for now; hopefully they'll fix it in the next round.

.Net controls changing size between computers

I have a wierd problem that i need to work out how to resolve,
I have spent the last couple of weeks working on a project for work on my laptop, but when I open the program on one of the work pcs alot of the controls are the wrong size and over lap etc,
the differences between the machines is this:
Laptop:
Windows 7 Pro;
Display - 1920*1040;
Visiual Studio 2008;
.net framework 3.5
Work Desktop:
windows xp pro;
display: 1024*768;
visual studio 2008;
.net framework 3.5;
to discribe the problem better, i have a panel which i have set to be 300px wide, which has a label inside with the day and the day in the mm-DD-yyyy format, using arial and size 8 font.
On the laptop it all fits perfectly but on the desktop the panel seems smaller and the label only displays half the text.
That is just one of many problems, another is with colour system.control seems to be a completly different colour between systems (althoug I figure that to be a win7 vs xp problem)
What can I do to fix this?
is it a windows version problem? (I have xp on a vmware machine on my laptop so i could code and design in that)
is it a display problem? - this is a big problem for me as i only have 1 laptop and I think this problem could have caused me mark loss on my recent assignment for Uni (I coded on laptop and never opened on a desktop untill today - so had no idea of this problem)
EDIT: I have found a solution of sorts for my particular problem, I discovered that my laptop was working on 125% on the dpi settings for visually impaired (no idea how..) so I have reset it back to 100% or 96Dpi Which has fixed my problems, and after chatting to a couple of other developers I know, they say that they tend to design for 96 dpi while leaving a little bit of white space around text to be safe. but then they don't tend to use c# much and mainly code all in c++ using QT framework.

The video adapter in your workstation has a different dots-per-inch setting. The form automatically rescales itself to accommodate that.
This is going to happen as well when you ship your product and it will run on the client's machine. Changing the form's AutoScaleMode property is not a fix, that will just produce clipped text in the controls. Make sure you form design is resilient to layout changes. Dock, Anchor, TableLayoutPanel, FlowLayoutPanel, the Resize event for tough cases. And make sure the controls inherit their container's Font property (not bold in the Properties window)

Ensure you can resize your panel in Visual Studio with all of the controls inside it being repositioned and resized properly. You can use anchors to achieve this, or perhaps you should use a TableLayoutPanel control instead of a regular Panel.

Change your setting for AutoScaleMode.