I usually prefer to code with a black background and white/coloured text but I had never taken the time to change my syntax-highlighting in Visual Studio.
Yesterday, when I finally got around to it one of my changes was to change User Types and User Types (Value Types) to different colors. Without realizing it, I had been using a struct type to pass and return data from methods more than I would have liked.
This change in syntax-highlighting made it very apparent what was going on. So it made me wonder if there were other settings which could provide similar help.
I also usually set my documentation and comment colours to something more washed out and passive so that actual code jumps more at you and makes quickly skimming through code faster.
Do you have any other tips like this which can help spot issues or makes things more readable?
Note: (I’ve seen this post, but I’m looking more for tips which are functional and provide help rather than purely cosmetic preferences.)
I make strings look horrible. Yellow background. Bold. Red foreground. To remind me that hardcoding strings is generally bad and to try as much as possible to minimize it!