Microsoft has provided two color schemes in Visual Studio 11. You can choose between a light shell and editor combination or a dark shell and editor combination from within Visual Studio Tools Options. You can still customize your editor settings in the same way that you are used to from previous versions of Visual Studio and load any profile changes you may have previously made.
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In two new posts on the official Visual Studio blog site, Microsoft's Monty Hammontree goes over a number of the new changes and features for the software development program. The UI has also simplified the artwork of the program's icons for Visual Studio 11. Hammontree writes:
The first blog post also goes over Quick Launch, which is designed to help developers search through the program's list of commands faster.
The second blog post talks about even more new features such as Hubs, created to help developers work on projects with a single window.
Visual Studio 11 beta will be released on February 29th, the same day Microsoft will launch Windows 8 "Consumer Preview".
In two new posts on the official Visual Studio blog site, Microsoft's Monty Hammontree goes over a number of the new changes and features for the software development program. The UI has also simplified the artwork of the program's icons for Visual Studio 11. Hammontree writes:
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While we understand that opinions on this new style of iconography may vary, an icon recognition study conducted with 76 participants, 40 existing and 36 new VS users, showed no negative effect in icon recognition rates for either group due to the glyph style transition.
The first blog post also goes over Quick Launch, which is designed to help developers search through the program's list of commands faster.
The second blog post talks about even more new features such as Hubs, created to help developers work on projects with a single window.
Visual Studio 11 beta will be released on February 29th, the same day Microsoft will launch Windows 8 "Consumer Preview".