Sunday, March 1, 2015

How to make Visual Studio 2012 look like 2010 in 3 steps

Tired of 2012 VS.net look and feel? Well change it to preference or in my case change it to 2010:

1. Icons: get rid of the 2012 icons, restore with 2010
2. Color: Get rid of the gnarly Theme and go back to Blue from 2010
3. Text: get rid of the ALL upper case labels (yuk!!)

Here are the tools I did for each:
1. Icons: Download, extract Visual Studio Icon Patcher - http://vsip.codeplex.com
extract
run cmd:
VSIP.exe extract
VSIP.exe inject

2. Color: Download Theme Editor: (2.2 has Blue, latest does not, dont ask me why?)
http://mirror.nienbo.com/visualstudio-extensions/ColorThemeEditor.vsix

Install and set theme to blue, e.g:
http://prntscr.com/6bmj11


3.: Text: Regedit and then this simple DWORD:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\11.0\General\SuppressUppercaseConversion 
REG_DWORD value: 1
per:
http://www.richard-banks.org/2012/06/how-to-prevent-visual-studio-2012-all.html


4. end result:

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