How do I change the colors used in the annotated panel in Visual Studio 2008?
I'm using a custom color scheme in Visual Studio 2008. An annotated panel (which shows who checked each block of code and when) renders in some illegible colors. I can't figure out what colors they are in the corresponding options dialog, so I can't change them to something clearer.
Does anyone know how to change these colors?
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Annotations are only available in Visual Studio Team System via TFS. Sometimes it can be hard to read because the background is a gradient that, depending on your settings, can fade to the same color as your font.
Unfortunately, there is no way to exclusively change the font and background of the Annotations panel. When you change the fonts and colors in your options, the annotations will change along with the settings in your text editor.
You have two options that I see: 1. Change your settings in Tools / Options / Fonts and Colors so that the background of the Plain Text strongly contrasts with the font color in your annotations, or increases the font size. These changes will affect the background gradient and font size of the annotation panel. 2. You can download Power Tools Team Foundation Server and access this information from the command line using tfpt annotate .
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