ReSharper color identifiers screw up with Visual Studio 2012 dark theme

Question

We're experiencing an annoying problem issues with ReSharper's color identifiers feature when Visual Studio 2012 is set to the built-in dark theme.

With ReSharper's color identifiers disabled, the code looks fine:

Code looking fine

Then, we enable ReSharper's color identifiers:

ReSharper's code inspection settings

And now the code is completly unreadable:

Some unreadable code

The curious thing, on a colleague's machine, the same code, with the same Visual Studio and ReSharper settings... looks right:

Some good-looking code

We tried reinitializing both Visual Studio and ReSharper settings, disabling add-ons and extensions and other voodoos to no avail.

Here are our setups:

Have you tried changing the Visual Studio colour scheme to a light one and then back to the dark one? — Piers Myers, May 02 '13 at 12:16

score 53 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 06 '13 at 19:05

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I had this same problem with vs2013 and resharper 8. I was able to fix by following these steps:

Close all Visual Studio instances

Open C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio {VS version}\Common7\IDE\Extensions\extensions.configurationchanged file

Type anything there

Save the file

Open VS and check Fonts and Colors in Tools | Options | Environment

source http://resharper-support.jetbrains.com/entries/26859128-ReSharper-Fonts-Colors-settings-do-not-appear-in-Visual-Studio-after-installation

answered Nov 06 '13 at 19:05

dan

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This worked also for other problems with messed-up colors. Thanks! – zenpoy Oct 15 '14 at 08:04
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Using Visual Studio 2013 with Resharper 10 and this worked for me! – user1431072 Nov 17 '15 at 19:48
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Instead of modifying `extensions.configurationchanged` (which requires elevation), you can also run `devenv /updateconfiguration`, an undocumented command which does the same thing – Igal Tabachnik Feb 11 '16 at 07:58
@IgalTabachnik your comment was hidden and I didn't read it. Else I would have tried instead of doing what's suggested in this answer. – IsmailS May 05 '16 at 05:27

score 7 · Accepted Answer · edited Jun 04 '14 at 02:17

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By diffing our system information, I noticed three add-ins I had my colleague didn't (JetBrains TeamCity Addin 7.1, VisualSVN 3.0.5 and Git Extensions).

Trying to disable them one by one I found out the culprit is the add-in for TeamCity: as soon as I uninstalled it (it's not reported in Visual Studio, and you can't disable it) the color scheme fixed itself.

The funny thing is both ReSharper and the TeamCity add-ins are provided by JetBrains.

edited Jun 04 '14 at 02:17

John Saunders

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answered May 02 '13 at 12:38

Albireo

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Did you report this issue to JetBrains? – Dmitry Osinovskiy May 02 '13 at 16:20
@DmitryOsinovskiy it seems [they already know](http://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/TW-23215), I still have to try the latest version of the add-in. – Albireo May 03 '13 at 06:21

score 7 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 04 '14 at 02:03

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I had the same problem too in VS2013, unfortunately editing the configurationchanged file didn't work for me. However I fixed it by doing the following:

deleting the following registry key:

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\12.0_Config
Run devenv /ResetSettings from VS 2013 admin command prompt

answered Jun 04 '14 at 02:03

Adriaan de Beer

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same here, albireo's fix didnt work, but this one did – Riki Jul 03 '15 at 17:18
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This worked for me as well. I skipped step 1 and executed step 2 from the Start Menu's "Run" panel. Colors....my pretty colors! – Buffalo Jul 10 '15 at 15:45
This seems to be a simpler way than the others although I had to rearrange all settings, such as locations of windows in VS – Tae-Sung Shin Oct 09 '15 at 19:41

score 2 · Answer 4 · answered May 06 '13 at 09:32

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It is a known bug in TeamCity Addin installer. It was fixed in 7.1.5 version. Please, look at related issue in our tracker and 7.1.5 release notes.

answered May 06 '13 at 09:32

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score 2 · Answer 5 · answered Jun 04 '13 at 17:20

I use a custom dark theme in Visual Studio 2010 and probably about 75% of the time when I first open a solution up, ReSharper 7.1.1 does exactly the same thing as in your "unreadable" image. I mean, the colors look exactly like that.

I have tested this across several computers with no plug-ins except ReSharper, and with various other plug-ins and no matter what, I get this all of the time. I do not have TeamCity Addin at all and never have.

Anyway, in case anyone is looking for a solution, this fixes it: Tools > Options > Environment > Fonts & Colors > Ok. That's it. Even no changes causes it to refresh and display properly. I can't prevent it, but this fixes it and is the first step I do pretty much every time I open VS2010.

Hope this helps someone.

score 0 · Answer 6 · answered Jan 12 '16 at 13:54

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I use VS2013 and had the same problem. In my case the culprit was the PowerShell Tools extension, after uninstalling it the color scheme went back to a sane state.

answered Jan 12 '16 at 13:54

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