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Richard Crist

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Uhm....I've looked and looked and to my dismay can not find out how to personalize my Visual Studio .NET 2003 editor. I want to change the background color, syntax colors, etc. Now don't get me wrong - I've looked at the help files. I guess it's a snake ready to bite me. :(

Could someone (gently) help me with this? :rolleyes:
 
More embarrassment

Syko10-96 said:
Perhaps...

Options -> Environment -> Fonts & Colors? :)
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Yeah I looked at that and played with it. Since your reply I have gone through and made sure all my colors are what I want.

Now....another embarrasing question. :)

My regular text editor that I love, UltraEdit, allows me to make up to 8 lists of my own syntax word categories and color each list, by language (I can create my own "languages" - like one for the X12 data syntax I work with). Does VS editor allow me to create my own syntax list (or at least add to the existing one) and color my personal list, also?

Be extra gentle. :cool:
 
Let me share this with you, I had the same problem. I tried like three times in an extremely fast and crazy search and failed them all. I even thougt: "WOW VS.NET doesnt let you customize the editor".. well I'll have to live with those (I hate them) greened comments. In the end of the story I managed to change them at the fourth time or something. ho ho ;)
 
the first thing I do when i install VS.NET is change the underlined error color to red. It's an error, it should be RED! :p
 
Not alone

samsmithnz said:
the first thing I do when i install VS.NET is change the underlined error color to red. It's an error, it should be RED! :p
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I'm glad I'm not the only one with this struggle. :)

I'm still wondering if I can make my own list of user keywords and assign a color category to them.
 
Why can't I just get on with things?

thenerd said:
Wow. I never knew you could do ANY of this. Thanks for making this topic rich.
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I'm always wanting to do esoteric things that sometimes lead to coolness, other times lead to usefulness, and sometimes just lead to embarassment. :o

I'm still waiting on someone to stumble on a way to make personal syntax lists in the VS .NET editor. If someone found a way I would say "Thank you" and stuff. :)
 
Thank you and stuff

PlausiblyDamp said:
Just found this link tells you how to add UnReal Scripting syntax support to VS.Net (download a .reg file from the page) - I assume the idea is the same for all languages.
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You are the man. :cool:

I have downloaded the VS .NET 2003 file. I will edit it and see what it does and see if I can use the technique to create my own syntax stuff.

Thanks again! :)
 
Ah, man

PlausiblyDamp said:
Just found this link tells you how to add UnReal Scripting syntax support to VS.Net (download a .reg file from the page) - I assume the idea is the same for all languages.
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Well....I checked out the thingy and it's an entry in the registry notifying VS .NET about additional file types. I've posted a new reply at the top level about information I FINALLY found in the VS .NET help (probably via the MSDN library).

Thanks for trying on my behalf, though. :)
 
I'm not happy

Richard Crist said:
Uhm....I've looked and looked and to my dismay can not find out how to personalize my Visual Studio .NET 2003 editor. I want to change the background color, syntax colors, etc. Now don't get me wrong - I've looked at the help files. I guess it's a snake ready to bite me. :(

Could someone (gently) help me with this? :rolleyes:
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I finally found the answer in the Visual Studio documentation - and I'm not happy. In their infinite wisdom they have decided to use the Communist approach and assume that everyone should edit the same way. See help information below:

Microsoft Visual Studio Help Information said:
There is only one font setting for the Code Editor and it affects all editors in Visual Studio. You can change the color based on the text type (such as comments and statements). Monospace fonts appear in boldface in the Font list, and bold settings are on a per text type basis. For example, you can set Comments and Bookmarks to bold and the other text types are unaffected.

The settings for text color and font type are global for all text element types, such as comments, statements, and so forth.

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