I am stumped on this one. I am not sure if others are having the same issue.
In past versions, when I use the report wizard, one of the screens lets me choose the style (Slate, Forest...)
With my new setup the screen never appears and on the summary screen it says 'Style:Modern'
I tracked down the StyleTemplate.Xml, made a copy and changed 'Modern' to 'ModernTest'. Both in the Styles folder and the en folder. I have searched my c drive and these are the only two places this file exists.
EDIT: I had to change the label to 'ModernTest' not the name. Now 'ModernTest' is showing up in the summary. I still however do not get the chance to change styles.
I added a new style to see if the page only shows up if more than one is present but maybe since that one was from an older version it still only thinks there is one valid style so skips the selection page... I will try to replicate modern...
I am using VS2015 Version 14.0.25123.00 Update 2, SSDT Version 14.0.1601.5
Anyone else have the same issue?
EDIT: I copied an xml file from a previous version and now slate appears as the style. I guess the only problem is that the screen to select the style no longer shows up.
I, like many developers, like to have dark background and light text - so I use the "Dark" theme on Visual Studio. However, when developing an application for WPF (which I admittedly do less often than I should), I have noticed that this has an unintended effect of making my controls difficult to read.
Thinking there is an easy solution out there, I tried changing the fonts/colors in VS, to no avail. There does not seem to be a color property for the WPF forms designer background color. The answer to this question does not seem to be applicable to either VS 2012 or Windows 7 (not sure which), as I did experiment with the control panel but did not find a suitable setting.
Does anyone know how to make the background a different color (ideally, a medium gray in this case)? See screenshot.
I'm not sure about 2012, as I have 2015, but I had a similar issue and found the appropriate settings here in tools->options->Environment->Fonts and Colours and select the XAML Designer:
I am using MahApps styles in an Excel document pane. They work fine on my Excel 2013 and on Excel 2010 on a standalone machine. However we have a virtual machine which seems to have a group policy applied that is causing some issues.
Looking at the styles in the master branch, I see references to NormalForegroundBrush but I can't find this in the Colours.xaml file. A search on the MahApps GitHub shows it was added over a year ago, but now appears to be missing from the master branch. I am wondering if this and maybe other missing styles are what is causing my problems.
A combobox whose dropdowns have a white background, appear with a black background. I tried setting the background using DynamicResource WhiteBrush but this had no effect. If I specifically set it to "White" then that works. I'm puzzled.
Regards
Alan
MahApps has heavily changed lately. Especially the errors with wrong color declarations are gone. Try either to use the new version from NuGet or clone the newest build from github
OK, so I have built a Windows Form application. I now want an icon for it. So I use the Icon Editor built into Visual Studio 2012. Draw it all out to look nice and purdy. Once I am done, I have a .ico file and I make it the default icon for the project, and also the icon for the one WinForm in the application.
Unfortunately, it does not show up as I have created it! It is displayed as the default icon file as it existed before I modified it in the icon editor. It's a 32x32 4 bit icon. If I change the extension to .bmp it shows up as the default.
It looks like the VS icon editor is editing something else, not the appearance of the icon. Can someone tell me what I am doing wrong?
I used to have a progam called IconArt that would create icons that looked like icons when I used them in VS. IconArt is now abandonware and won't run on my 64bit Windows workstation.
Since I didn't get any answers within the time I was hoping, I posted this question also in the MSDN Visual Studio forum, and got a good answer that I thought I should post here. Credit to Reed Copsey, Jr, for the answer!
This is it:
You'll need to put your design in all of the different versions. ICO
files contain multiple versions of the same image, for different
screen resolutions.
My personal preference is to not use VS - there's an ICO plugin for
Paint.Net (all free) which allows you to make a single image
(typically 256x256), and save multiple versions within an ICO file in
one shot. It's very useful for building icons.
See
http://forums.getpaint.net/index.php?/topic/927-icon-cursor-and-animated-cursor-format-v37-may-2010/
for the plugin.
Since I am a Paint.Net user, the plugin sounded like a great idea, and I tried it. Bingo! This works very nicely.
I was wondering: are you satisfied with the text-rendering in the Visual Studio 2010 editor (Beta 2)? On my primary monitor it looks very blurred, even when using font size 12!
When using font size 10 or 11 it's horrible. Can the WPF text rendering mode be set explicitly for VS code window?
EDIT: I am using Windows 7 x64 and my primary monitor is a Benq G2412HD. What's kind of strange is that the font seems to be nicer on the secondary monitor, which is a 4 year old 19' TFT.
EDIT: I tried several Cleartype settings but none really looks as nice as when using Visual Studio 2008.
The first image is from the primary monitor, the second from the secondary. Both are using Consolas 10pt (my preferred font).
Primary screen http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/6789/vs2010.png
Secondary screen http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/7986/vs20102.png
I use Consolas size 10 and I have no issues.
Try following the instructions on Microsoft's website for tuning clear type. You can find it here.
If you use IE when accessing that website, you can make changes to clear type settings right from the browser.
TextSharp is the answer right now. I really hope they continue to fix this issue because I've had terrible results on my primary and secondary monitors with the standard rendering. Using beta 2.
With 8 or 9pt Lucida Console the text is fine with text mode set to 'Aliased'.
Here is how VS2008 and VS2010 beta2 editor text rendering looks for me, side by side. The font is Consolas 13pt.
VS2008:
http://int19h.org/so/cleartype_vs9.png
VS2010:
http://int19h.org/so/cleartype_vs10.png
I don't see any observable differences.
[EDIT] Okay, I've reproduced it with the color scheme posted. It seems that the key part here is to use bright text on dark background. With dark-on-bright, the output seems to be the same.
Here's some guesswork. Apparently, Direct2D (which WPF uses for antialiased text output) always "gives precedence" to foreground (i.e. text) color over background color when doing subpixel antialiasing. On the other hand, traditional GDI ClearType seems to always give precedence to dark colors over bright ones. Thus, with bright letters and dark backgrounds, ClearType text becomes thinner, but Direct2D text remains of the same size, pixel-wise. Furthermore, as bright pixels are more intensive, the same amount of them "stands out" more with same foreground/background contrast, so bright-on-dark D2D text looks noticeably "bolder".
Well I experience the same oddity (not only in VS2010, but in all WPF applications). Sadly there seems no way of setting a "backwards style" text rendering in WPF in general.
I just found this addon "Text Sharp" for VS2010 on the VS gallery which lets you select different font aliasing options for the VS2010 text editor, but at least for me, this didn't help with the issue.
Here is the link, if you might want to try it: Text Sharp VS2010 extension
Please have a look at the screenshots in the following update (to come in final release of VS2010), and see if the improvements solve your issues with VS font rendering:
http://blogs.msdn.com/text/archive/2010/03/05/additional-wpf-text-clarity-improvements.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/visualstudio/archive/2010/03/11/wpf-text-clarity-improvements.aspx
Have you ensured that ClearType is enabled on your OS? I've seen similar issues with 2010 when ClearType was disabled on my machine. Re-enabling ClearType made the Text snappy looking again.
For some reason the ClearType setting on my OS kept getting undone when I TS'd around a bit. I had to reset it a couple of times but it seems to have calmed down recently (I believe I was using a Pre-RTM build of Win7 at the time).
Try using Courier New font.
Tools -> Options -> Environment -> Fonts and Colors
ollifant I agree with you, they are different.
Others may not see any differences from screen shots, but on the actual machine I can see differences. Loading the same project with the same settings side by side looks different. I think it is the difference in how WPF renders fonts or something.
The VS 2010 pane looks shifted slightly left, like kerning in the font is off by a little or something. Again - same font in both VS 2008 and 2010.
I have tried now on Windows 7 and Windows Vista. Maybe older XP machines render differently, can't say (and no I won't load XP to find out).
I have noticed a rendering problem with Visual Studio 2010b2 as well.
I've tried adjusting the clear type settings to no avail.
I use consolas 9 pt on win7x64 with a average 19 inch TFT.
This is what it looks like on my system.
A side by side screen shot
OK here's what you do. Finally figured it out!
You need to reset cleartype to the default values. Don't try to tune it based on what you think looks good - because what you think looks good won't in VS2010.
I noticed on a brand new install of Windows 7 my VS2010 text suddenly became a lot nicer. After running cleartype to try to get nice text on a wall mounted Sony TV I found it had totally screwed up text for my normal external monitor.
I haven't yet found a way to reset cleartype explicitly, but apparently the below explains what the defaults are :
When you open ClearType Text Tuner,
select "Turn on ClearType" check box
and click on Next. Then, again click
on the Next after setting Native
Resolution. Then, select the options
as given below:
1st Screen – 1st Option out of 2
2nd Screen – 2nd Option out of 6
3rd Screen – 1st Option out of 3
4th Screen – 2nd Option out of 6
Finally, click on Finish.
This is for VS2010 RC.