Visual Studio 2012 Tweaks

Introduction

Single Click Preview

One of the most annoying features I found after migrating from VS 2010 to VS 2012 is, Single Click Preview.



For me it's quite frustrating, each time I accidently click and file in Solution Explorer, the preview is shown.

The reason might be that I was very accustomed to the VS 2010 environment, most people may like it. But I wanted to remove it and found the tweak for it.

Go to "Tools" > "Options" > "Tabs and Windows".



Where is design view in ASP.NET

I am an ASP.NET developer for quite a long time and I pretty much enjoy writing aspx markup instead of using the design view. A couple of days ago I noticed that there is no design view anymore (that was present in Visual Studio 2005 and 2008, not sure about 2010). I am not interested in design view even now, so my curiosity forced me to find the way to get it back. And I found the tweak.

Go to "Tools" > "Options" > "HTML Designer".



Multiple themes in Visual Studio



(Frankly I prefer the default light theme, the dark theme is indeed very dark.)

Upper Case Menus

Does anyone notice that all the Menus in Visual Studio are shown in capital letter?



Funny, isn't it? Add the following registry key if you don't like it:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\11.0\General
DWORD: SuppressUppercaseConversion
Value: 1

Hope all of you enjoyed reading this article. Thank you for the patience.