Possible to adjust ClearType on Visual Studio 2010

Question

I just got VS 2010 beta 1, but the text in the text editor is thin, ie not anti aliased, smoothed or cleartyped. It's hard to read. Is there a setting to adjust it, similar to the one in the OS.

Answer 1

You have to both turn it off in the display options and the performance options: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudio/archive/2010/03/15/visual-studio-2010-text-clarity-cleartype-and-aliased-fonts.aspx

Answer 2

This will be fixed in Beta 2 once WPF integrates with the DirectWrite code in the latest versions of DirectX.

Answer 3

To workaround this, we decided to override the OS Setting and always for ClearType smoothing to be on when Consolas is the editor font. This way the user who isn't particular about fonts gets the best behaviour and if the user wants to have a non-clear type experience the will also need to switch their font which they would have to do anyways.

ClearType cannot be disabled in source code windows

Let me know if changing the font from Consolas works for you.

Answer 4

The Microsoft H4X0RS decided to force users to adopt ClearType when using Consolas font (scroll down until you see the heading Consolas always uses ClearType)

The way to fix this is to install the Text Sharp extension (yes, you read right, you need to install an extension to turn off BlurType -- ie to have your system-wide setting of no anti-aliasing applied)

How the people who did this got away with it I'll never know.

Answer 5

There is an extension that can help with this:

http://www.svprogramming.net/text-sharp/index.html

Answer 6

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudio/archive/2010/03/15/visual-studio-2010-text-clarity-cleartype-and-aliased-fonts.aspx