VS2005 - Any way to alter stock IDE 'fuzzy' toolbar icons?

Alan Cobb

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Nov 15, 2005, 12:20:00 PM11/15/05

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Hi,

To my eye the toolbar icons in VS2005 seem
"out of focus". Rather than having sharp well-defined
images, they apparently were deliberately made in
this "fuzzy" way.

Is there any way to change to an alternate set of
more traditional "sharp" icons?

Thanks,
Alan Cobb

clintonG

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Nov 15, 2005, 3:31:05 PM11/15/05

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Tools > Options > Environment (?) has settings to change size and text but
that's about it.

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Alan Cobb

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Nov 15, 2005, 5:03:17 PM11/15/05

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Hi Clinton,

I guess I'll have to get used to the 'fuzzy' icons.

OTOH, after half a day of playing with RTM VS2005 I'm very
impressed so far with the rest of the UI, including the
WinForms 2.0 designer and new controls. Looks like it may
be time to kiss VS2003 goodbye.

Alan Cobb

On Tue, 15 Nov 2005 14:31:05 -0600, "clintonG"
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>Tools > Options > Environment (?) has settings to change size and text but
>that's about it.
>

clintonG

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Nov 15, 2005, 7:00:20 PM11/15/05

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I'm having nothing but problems with VS2005 myself. Very very strange issues
like the Website Administrator adding two users into the database for each
user I add and posting the time 6 hours later than the actual system time
when the user was added. Other stuff too...

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Alan Cobb

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Nov 15, 2005, 10:25:39 PM11/15/05

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Hi Clinton,

Well I guess half a day isn't much testing time for me yet :).

One thing that can be painfully slow in VS2003 is single stepping
during mixed-mode debugging (involving both native and
managed code). In my short testing of VS2005 that problem
seems to be gone.

Alan Cobb

Carlos J. Quintero [VB MVP]

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Nov 16, 2005, 4:31:42 AM11/16/05

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Hi Alan,

VS 2005 toolbars now use TrueColor (or at least 256 colors) for the button
images, like Office 2003. AFAIK, there is no way to change that (apart from
changing the color depth of your screen, which would affect other
applications)

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Alan Cobb

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Nov 16, 2005, 12:30:56 PM11/16/05

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Hi Carlos,

I suppose I could try figuring out what file those icon
resources live in and then perhaps editing them.
But that's probably going too far :).

Alan Cobb

Michael Viking

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Nov 16, 2005, 5:44:54 PM11/16/05

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> Hi Carlos,
>
> I suppose I could try figuring out what file those icon
> resources live in and then perhaps editing them.
> But that's probably going too far :).

<snip>

I do this routinely, and it's not too far, or too hard, and well worth it.
Just save your work, since on upgrades, etc., your changes will disappear.

-Michael Viking