We're experiencing an annoying problem issues with ReSharper's color identifiers feature when Visual Studio 2012 is set to the built-in dark theme.
With ReSharper's color identifiers disabled, the code looks fine:
Then, we enable ReSharper's color identifiers:
And now the code is completly unreadable:
The curious thing, on a colleague's machine, the same code, with the same Visual Studio and ReSharper settings... looks right:
We tried reinitializing both Visual Studio and ReSharper settings, disabling add-ons and extensions and other voodoos to no avail.
Here are our setups:
- My add-ins - His add-ins
- My extensions - His extensions
- My system informations - His system informations
I had this same problem with vs2013 and resharper 8. I was able to fix by following these steps:
- Close all Visual Studio instances
- Open C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio {VS version}\Common7\IDE\Extensions\extensions.configurationchanged file
- Type anything there
- Save the file
- Open VS and check Fonts and Colors in Tools | Options | Environment
source http://resharper-support.jetbrains.com/entries/26859128-ReSharper-Fonts-Colors-settings-do-not-appear-in-Visual-Studio-after-installation
I had the same problem too in VS2013, unfortunately editing the configurationchanged file didn't work for me. However I fixed it by doing the following:
- deleting the following registry key:
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\12.0_Config
- Run
devenv /ResetSettings
from VS 2013 admin command prompt
By diffing our system information, I noticed three add-ins I had my colleague didn't (JetBrains TeamCity Addin 7.1, VisualSVN 3.0.5 and Git Extensions).
Trying to disable them one by one I found out the culprit is the add-in for TeamCity: as soon as I uninstalled it (it's not reported in Visual Studio, and you can't disable it) the color scheme fixed itself.
The funny thing is both ReSharper and the TeamCity add-ins are provided by JetBrains.
It is a known bug in TeamCity Addin installer. It was fixed in 7.1.5 version.
Please, look at related issue in our tracker and 7.1.5 release notes.
I use a custom dark theme in Visual Studio 2010 and probably about 75% of the time when I first open a solution up, ReSharper 7.1.1 does exactly the same thing as in your "unreadable" image. I mean, the colors look exactly like that.
I have tested this across several computers with no plug-ins except ReSharper, and with various other plug-ins and no matter what, I get this all of the time. I do not have TeamCity Addin at all and never have.
Anyway, in case anyone is looking for a solution, this fixes it: Tools > Options > Environment > Fonts & Colors > Ok. That's it. Even no changes causes it to refresh and display properly. I can't prevent it, but this fixes it and is the first step I do pretty much every time I open VS2010.
Hope this helps someone.
I use VS2013 and had the same problem. In my case the culprit was the PowerShell Tools extension, after uninstalling it the color scheme went back to a sane state.