Question

We have dev qa and prod environments each with its own source control branch. Is there any add ons or macros that could change the Visual Studio window in some noticeable way based upon some type of information in the solution or project file.

I thought of this because when I was a unix system admin and I logged in as root my console font color would change so that at a glance I could tell I was root.

Answer 1

You could try the Productivity Power Tools addin for VS2010. In particular, the Tab UI feature in the description:

Color tabs according to their project
or according to regular expressions.
This option permits tabs to be colored
according to the project they belong
to.This is particularly useful when
sorting tabs by project, as it allows
you to immediately identify different
groups of project documents.
You can also configure regular expressions and assign a color to each
one. If the name of a tab matches the
configured regular expression, it will
be colored with the assigned color.