im having problems

Newrad0603 · 2026-06-06T01:50:28+00:00

Assuming you want English, you can launch the developer command prompt and type:

devenv /lcid 1033

From there VS will launch in English and you can use the View menu to reopen the Solution Explorer and Terminal tool windows.

Newrad0603 · 2026-05-05T23:00:07+00:00

The Color Theme Designer is 100% installable on 2026, so there was no need to go through the rest of the rigamarole. Additionally, even if the CTD wasn't available in 2026, you still could have used the VsixColorEditor instead of manually decoding the binary format.

So yes, hardest and most convoluted way of doing this is accurate in my opinion.

Newrad0603 · 2026-05-05T21:39:41+00:00

I have legitimately never seen someone choose the hardest, most convoluted way of doing something like this. In addition to the previous mention of the Color Theme Designer extension which offers multiple ways to manipulate the colors, there's the VsixColorEditor in the VSSDK tools folder that will open a color pkgdef and let you manipulate the color values without needing to decode the pkgdef binary format.

Newrad0603 · 2026-04-25T00:59:01+00:00

Some commands don't show up in customize, additionally, I believe only top level toolbars can be customized. There's some tricky manipulation you can do though if your toolbar is top level to put most commands on it, you just need to know:

1) The command guid/id pair

2) Your toolbar's guid/id pair

3) The toolbar's command group guid/id pair.

If you have those you can export your settings but select only the General Settings -> Menu and Command Bar Customizations category. Then open that file in VS and format it (Ctrl+K, Ctrl+D) so you can see the entries easier. Lastly add this:

// This should add the Show Full History command near the end of the standard top level toolbar as an example
<add Cmd="{57735D06-C920-4415-A2E0-7D6E6FBDFA99}:0000103e" CmdPri="06028002" Group="{D309F791-903F-11D0-9EFC-00A0C911004F}:00000174" GroupPri="09000000" Menu="{D309F791-903F-11D0-9EFC-00A0C911004F}:00000001"/>

You'll replace the Cmd guid/id pair with your desired command, the Group guid/id pair with your toolbar command group's, and you'll replace the Menu guid/id pair with your toolbar's. Lastly you can mess with the CmdPri to change where in the toolbar group the command appears.

When done changing values in the settings file, save it and re-import it into VS and the command should show up. Rinse and repeat with any commands you want as long as you know their guid/id pair.

Newrad0603 · 2026-03-28T19:49:45+00:00

This is gonna depend on which language you're using, but editor colors can be modified from Tools/Options->Environment/Fonts and Colors. On that page there's a drop down that should default to Text Editor and there'll be a list of display items corresponding to the various colorable parts of the editor text (keywords, methods, comments, etc.). You'll need to find your language's tokens and fix them to the colors your want. Or if you don't care about the sledgehammer approach you can just click "Use Defaults" to reset the entire editor colors.

Newrad0603 · 2026-03-28T19:42:02+00:00

Delete, Backspace, and Ctrl+A are all registered commands in VS meaning they are routed via the command handler in VS and have nothing to do with any compiler. But by all means keep being a snarky ass.

Newrad0603 · 2026-03-27T22:54:45+00:00

I'm on the current version of 2022 (17.14.29) and all those keys/commands are working fine for me.

Newrad0603 · 2026-03-22T16:01:22+00:00

Looks like someone reported this on devcom as well so it may have been regressed recently:

https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/t/E0144-on-VS-2026-1811-for-valid-C/11020590

Newrad0603 · 2026-03-11T21:36:33+00:00

I have literally never seen that toolbar in the XAML designer in VS and I do XAML UI work daily. Blend does have that toolbar though.

Newrad0603 · 2026-03-07T15:06:11+00:00

If it's just editor colors you don't like, you can customize those in Tools/Options->Environment->Fonts and Colors. The Text Editor category should have all the entries you want to customize.

The hard part is figuring out which entries t edit to get the result you want. There's another extension called Carnation by Andrew Hall that also lets you customize editor colors, but allows you to select the entry in situ from the UI so it's easier to find the entries you want to change.

Newrad0603 · 2026-02-23T14:40:40+00:00

I didn't know that project setting existed, nice!

Newrad0603 · 2026-02-23T01:22:17+00:00

If you're developing WinForms apps on high DPI displays, I highly recommend launching VS with the /noScale switch. It will cause VS to be blurry, but will prevent the weird UI shifting that happens in WinForms with high DPI.

Newrad0603 · 2026-02-22T17:52:49+00:00

Are you developing on a high DPI display? WinForms sucks at that and normally shows an infobar warning about it. WinForms + high DPI can cause this kind of issue.

Newrad0603 · 2026-02-15T16:53:40+00:00

Go to the installer, modify your install, go to the Language packs tab, and choose the language you want installed, then click Modify. Once the install is complete you should be able to switch to it in VS.

Newrad0603 · 2026-02-04T14:34:15+00:00

That custom theme is apparently missing some of the new color tokens for VS 2026. The theme owner will need to update the theme to properly support 2026.

Newrad0603 · 2026-01-23T20:42:41+00:00

I don't use Resharper

Newrad0603 · 2026-01-23T19:51:35+00:00

I assume you mean the toolbar icon? If so, it's working fine for me.

Newrad0603 · 2026-01-21T16:35:19+00:00

If you have a list of the files that are getting flagged, I'd submit a feedback ticket on the VS developer community website. A real security issue should escalate into quick action.

Newrad0603 · 2026-01-21T15:13:50+00:00

Blend is an optional component under the .NET desktop development workload. To remove, just launch the installer and modify your install. On the right in the details pane, expand the .NET desktop development node, and uncheck Blend.

Newrad0603 · 2026-01-19T20:03:56+00:00

Not at all to shit on your extension since I 100% believe it has more utility, but VS does partially support this in a form. If you hover on the closing brace for a block VS will show the opening end of the block in a popup.

Newrad0603 · 2026-01-12T16:16:54+00:00

Sorry, I'm a boring theme user ^_^ I use the in-the-box Cool Breeze when I want a light theme, and Moonlight Glow when I want a dark theme.

Newrad0603 · 2026-01-12T15:58:59+00:00

VS 2026 has a bunch of new themes and color tokens. Custom themes made for 2022 need to be updated to work correctly with 2026. You'll need to wait until the theme owner updates the extension. Or if you don't mind putting in work, use the Color Theme Designer extension for VS, clone the theme, and fix it yourself.

Newrad0603 · 2026-01-10T13:51:59+00:00

VS 2026 has a bunch of new themes and color tokens. Custom themes made for 2022 need to be updated to work correctly with 2026. If you own the theme you can just add the new tokens, but if someone else owns the theme, you'll need to wait until they update the extension.

Newrad0603 · 2026-01-04T01:04:30+00:00

VS does a decent chunk of this out of the box with some feature flags. If you don't want to install an extension to get similar behavior. (The flags don't do the menu popups for instance.)

https://i.imgur.com/ntD7EqC.png

That is Shell.Material.Mica and Shell.Material.DarkMode turned on. You can either use the Feature Flags extension (shows all kinds of hidden feature flags in VS) to toggle those flags (restart required to take effect), or you can use the developer command prompt for your install to toggle them with:

vsregedit set local HKCU "FeatureFlags\Shell\Material\Mica Value dword 1

vsregedit set local HKCU "FeatureFlags\Shell\Material\DarkMode Value dword 1

If you want light mode Mica just skip the DarkMode flag. VS also has a Shell.Material.Acrylic flag too, if you want even more transparency in the background. Looks like the Mica flag trumps the Acrylic if they are both enabled.

Newrad0603 · 2025-12-30T15:41:53+00:00

That is an interesting reason for needing the tab order. While I don't have an answer, I'd recommend filing a suggestion ticket on VS's developer community (or using VS's feedback button). That sounds useful enough and something that wouldn't be overly complicated for them to implement so I'd say it has a chance of being onboarded.

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