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Customize font colors - Visual Studio Tutorial
From the course: Visual Studio 2019 Essential Training
Customize font colors
- [Instructor] We're going to look at how to change any of the individual colors and typefaces for the Visual Studio IDE. For this example, I'll concentrate on changing the colors for the items you find in the text editor but you should know that Visual Studio supports changing the colors everywhere in the IDE, so I could change the line numbers in my code editor or the text that appears on my toolbars or what's in the Solution Explorer or the error windows. It's very customizable. What I'll show you in this demo is changing the comment color and also talk about changing what's called the brace match. I'll show you what I mean. If I move my cursor to the left of that curly brace on line 21, you'll see there's this subtle gray background appears there. You also see the same background down on line 27. That's the brace match. That's supposed to give me a clue of which brace in the IDE matches. Now of course in the newer versions of Visual Studio, we have this dotted line here, so that's…
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Save or restore custom settings1m 22s
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Explore the basic display settings for editors5m 45s
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Configure the text editor settings3m 29s
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Add line numbers for better document readability42s
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See more code at a glance with word wrapping1m 42s
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Choose a programming font2m 59s
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Change the IDE color theme54s
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Customize font colors4m 8s
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