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BRebey
New Member
USA
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 Posted - Oct 18 2017 : 2:14:09 PM
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I just upgraded from Visual Studio 2015 to 2017, and installed the current version of VA.
Now I get vertical dotted lines in my C# source code to show matching braces. This is a nice feature, but the color is far too bright and it's in the way. I'd like to change the color.
I don't know if Studio or VA provides this feature, nor do I know if VA or Studio colorize it. I've poked around in the color configuration, but I can't see anything that sounds like it's for this feature.
I'm hoping someone can help me figure out how to change the color of this feature, either via VA or Studio.
Attached is an image of what I'm talking about:
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feline
Whole Tomato Software
United Kingdom
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Posted - Oct 19 2017 : 3:48:12 PM
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These lines are coming from the IDE, it's not something VA is doing. You can turn them off with the setting:
IDE tools menu -> Options -> Text Editor -> C# -> Advanced -> Show guides for declaration level constructs
unfortunately I have not been able to work out how to change the colour of these lines, I am not seeing anything in the VA options font and colour settings that effect them.
You might want to try turning off the IDE feature, and look for an extension that will do this, but allow you to control the colour of the lines. |
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BRebey
New Member
USA
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Posted - Oct 23 2017 : 09:33:33 AM
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Thanks for the feedback. That's what I suspected, but was hoping for a better answer. It would be a really neat and useful feature if the lines weren't so obnoxiously bright, and I'd hoped that VA could come to my rescue.
I you or anyone else ever comes up with a way to do change these colors, I'd love an update. |
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Whole Tomato Software
United Kingdom
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Posted - Oct 28 2017 : 09:30:45 AM
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There is an extension that "could come to your rescue":
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=SteveDowerMSFT.IndentGuides
I'm using this and it works well for me in C++. It also supports C#.
You can set the colors, the line style, and a lot more. Certainly, you would need to disable the IDE variant so you don't get duplicate lines 
There is one caveat, quoting from the page:
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The extension works fine, but you'll be prompted that it may cause instability. This is incorrect for Indent Guides. (To suppress the warning I either have to drop support for previous versions of VS or completely restructure the project. The warning appears because the extension does not declare VS 2017-specific dependencies, however, all Indent Guides dependencies should always be present.)
Hope this helps. |
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Brace/Structure Matching Vertical Lines Color
