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• Christopher Nash commented  ·  August 24, 2012 3:52 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Many people find the VS 2012 light and dark themes to be quite ugly, even depressing. Please add more themes or support upgrading the VS 2010 theme editor.

• jeffpierson commented  ·  August 23, 2012 5:49 p.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  I just wanted to add that I think this suggestion is the biggest waste of effort. The new visual style in Visual Studio 2012 is excellent and needs to alteration. Everything is consistent and easy to find. I have nothing to complain about. My vote is to keep the great improvements that we have and don't look back.

• Jesus commented  ·  August 23, 2012 1:10 p.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  JESUS SAVE THE VISUAL STUDIO PLEASE!!!! BEAM THE F_U_C_K_H_E_A_D_S out of microsoft! Soon if possible!

• radioman.lt commented  ·  August 23, 2012 1:06 p.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  and please do not delete my comment, JESUS are you hearing me? ah..

• Mark Richardson commented  ·  August 23, 2012 12:56 p.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  I've even tried the same technique as this guy http://weblogs.asp.net/kencox/archive/2012/08/19/an-er-interesting-visual-studio-2012-colour-theme.aspx and I could almost say it's no worse than the original. (Almost)

• ITMAGE commented  ·  August 23, 2012 12:26 p.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  @Narbeh: Glad it works for you :-) For me unfortunately it doesn't work well with my eyes. The only way I can tolerate it is to turn off all the toolbars and windows, and just us the editor window. Sad because the vibrant colors and 3D-like icons of VS2010 kind of gave me inspiration. Using VS2010 is sort of like sitting in a datacenter with the lights off, and watching all the flashing lights of the machines. This has always lifted my spirits - strange but true. VS2012 evokes an entirely different feeling altogether.

• radioman.lt commented  ·  August 23, 2012 11:22 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Narbeh, daltonics are welcome too ;}

• Narbeh Minassian commented  ·  August 23, 2012 11:08 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  I don't want to be the black sheep here but I'm actually starting to get used to the new theme. Furthermore, have you noticed that increased snappiness of the UI along with the faster start up time? I also noticed that VS 2012 uses about 45% less memory when open with no project loaded. I've always complained of the increased sluggishness of VS after each release but it appears that MS has put some effort into performance this time around which is a plus. i would take "under the hood" changes any day of the week vs. visual eye candy. Just my opinion...

• B. Gates commented  ·  August 23, 2012 10:47 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Ultimate with MSDN $13,299 then $4,249/year
  Premium with MSDN $6,119 then $2,569/year
  Professional with MSDN $1,199 then $799/year
  Test Professional with MSDN $2,169 then $899/year

  Doing the math (with a little rounding for simplicity)

  Most corporate developers who have been around for a while have been programming for say 10 years. At the top tier each of us represents an up-front revenue of at least 4K and then 13K per year every year afterwards. Back it down to the Premium version and you're at 2K and 6K per year with Professional at 1K and 800 per year.

  Over 10 years;

  Ultimate $134K - that's 134 THOUSAND dollars
  Premium $62K
  Professional $9K

  This is an average of $68K per developer which is most likely a little high - but the point is over a 10 year period we can represent over $60K of revenue EACH and you're blowing us off??

  Somebody needs to start doing the math.

• B. Gates commented  ·  August 23, 2012 10:35 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Ultimate with MSDN $13,299 then $4,249/year
  Premium with MSDN $6,119 then $2,569/year
  Professional with MSDN $1,199 then $799/year
  Test Professional with MSDN $2,169 then $899/year

  Doing the math (with a little rounding for simplicity)

  Most corporate developers who have been around for a while have been programming for say 10 years. At the top tier each of us represents an up-front revenue of at least 4K and then 13K per year every year afterwards. Back it down to the Premium version and you're at 2K and 6K per year with Professional at 1K and 800 per year.

  Over 10 years;

  Ultimate $134K - that's 134 THOUSAND dollars
  Premium $62K
  Professional $9K

  This is an average of $68K per developer which is most likely a little high - but the point is over a 10 year period we can represent over $60K of revenue EACH and you're blowing us off??

  Somebody needs to start doing the math.

• B. Gates commented  ·  August 23, 2012 10:08 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  I'll tell you what's difficult to take, the SQL Server 2012 Enterprise Manager looks GREAT because it's the VS 2010 shell. So how do we rate? I shouldn't be bitter - at least one of the great development tools I use daily received an awesome update AND it's integrated with VS 2010 again for BIDs development... but I digress (sorry).

• ITMAGE commented  ·  August 23, 2012 9:55 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  People: Go post your feelings about the UI here

  http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudio/archive/2012/08/22/visual-studio-2012-released-to-the-web.aspx

• Anonymous commented  ·  August 23, 2012 7:16 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  "It's the weird colour scheme that freaks me. Every time you try to operate one of these weird black controls, which are labeled in black on a black background, a small black light lights up black to let you know you've done it. Hey, what is this, some kind of galactic hyper-hearse? "

  - Zaphod Beeblebrox, The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy

• Anonymous commented  ·  August 23, 2012 6:48 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Wow this VS2012 UI sucks. Please give us some options for changing the UI to be more 2010'ish and BRING BACK CUSTOM THEMES!

• exalting commented  ·  August 23, 2012 6:13 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Developing metro app not in normal dev tool but in "metro studio" - is like assembling cross-country vehicle not at a factory but in field in muddy puddle under the rain.

• Phil Murray commented  ·  August 23, 2012 5:58 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Guys, You have to realise that reverting back to VS2010 interface you negate the tens of millions of dollars that M$ have spent designing this awful UI.

  When a company is focused simply on catching up with the competition rather than innovating themselves they really don't care what we as end users think.

  Do you really think they are going to change their new global branding just because we, as developer don't like it. I don't think so...

  Microsoft, please stop trying to copy Apple and innovate where its required. We want to build Metro application and not develop software in one.

• rchutch commented  ·  August 23, 2012 5:52 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  So, Microsoft, you've heard from your users. I don't think I can remember anyone saying that the user interface is tolerable.

  We're on your side (at least the vast majority of us are) and we are voicing what I believe is a legitimate concern. We are saying that we will probably not use this product because of it.

  Any comments besides " I went ahead and removed the word beta from the title". Some response would at least let us know that someone from MS is even paying attention to what the users are voicing. Right now, it looks one sided.

• re-coder commented  ·  August 23, 2012 5:34 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Bad bad bad ........

• Anonymous commented  ·  August 22, 2012 3:27 p.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  I never thought I'd be posting on forum about a topic like this - but I've used VS2012 all day today and it's absolutely horrible. Dark or Light... both are serious disasters. The icons in Solution explorer are such a monumental step backwards in ease of use it's just astounding.

  I'm going to eschew 2012 and use 2010 until you get theming worked out - because right now it just makes me angry.

  I can live with the all-caps... honestly it's stupid but I can live with it - but designating areas by changing the darkness of grey by 3% is just ridiculous.

• Victor Zakharov commented  ·  August 22, 2012 1:00 p.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Bring back Visual Studio 2010 theme, at least as an option. There was nothing wrong with that - why change it?