Home/ Questions/Q 5962391
In Process

The Archive Base Latest Questions

Editorial Team
  • 0
Asked: 2026-05-22T19:05:56+00:00

Within VS2010 I’m using a dark/pastel color scheme. SP2010 Feature Designer has a Manifest

  • 0

Within VS2010 I’m using a dark/pastel color scheme. SP2010 Feature Designer has a Manifest tab with a Preview of Packaged Manifest read-only XML pane.
As you can see from the two screenshots, there is text in the pane, but it’s basically invisible due to the background pane color.

Is there any way to change the font color, from that light gray to something else? I’ve tried changing several display items within Tools\Options\Environment\Fonts and Colors with no luck.

As a last resort, is there a way to change the pane background color? (although I guess it’ll change that for the whole VS IDE)

Thanks all.

Feature manifest preview, unselected: Feature manifest preview, unselected

Feature manifest preview, selected: Feature manifest preview, selected

Share

Leave an answer

You must login to add an answer.

Need An Account,

1 Answer

  1. Editorial Team

    In the end I’ve found a workaround for this … for whoever (?) might care.

    • Download Visual Studio Color Theme Editor extension.
    • If you need help choosing some specific UI color, download any desktop color picker tool, i.e. Just Color Picker.
    • From a VS SharePoint project, open some Feature manifest or Package manifest preview so to apply and check the ongoing results.
    • From within VS, create a new custom theme based on Default. Sort the items by name and look for the couple ProjectDesignerBackgroundGradientBegin/End.
    • Change both to some darker color, like 475B7E.

    This is how it looks like:

    enter image description here

    • 0