
A new theming experienceįinding and using a new theme is now as easy as downloading any other extension. This summer, a group of interns has developed a newly released Color Theme Designer extension, and we’re hoping that making custom themes just got a whole lot simpler for beginner and advanced designers alike. If you were brave enough to create your own theme, you had to edit elements one by one from an unorganized list of 3,000+ vaguely named color tokens. One of the only ways to import themes was to download the older Color Theme Editor extension. Lucky for us, we’ve just redesigned the process of creating and importing custom themes. Use your GitHub account to talk to us and other Visual Studio developers in the Visual Studio conversation in the Gitter community.Sometimes the default themes for Visual Studio just aren’t enough.Suggest a feature, track product issues, and find answers in the Visual Studio Developer Community.Report product issues to us via the Report a Problem tool that appears both in the Visual Studio Installer and in the Visual Studio IDE.We also offer an installation chat (English only) support option for installation-related issues. If your Visual Studio installation fails, see Troubleshoot Visual Studio installation and upgrade issues for step-by-step guidance. Choose the Language packs tab in the Visual Studio Installer.However, you can change the default language whenever you want. The Visual Studio Installer selects a default language pack for Visual Studio that matches the language of the operating system. To modify your Visual Studio installation, you first need to launch the Visual Studio Installer, and then select a Visual Studio installation to modify.įor information about the SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) component, see Download and install SSDT for Visual Studio. Launch the installer to modify your installation Control updates to network-based Visual Studio deployments.Update a network-based installation of Visual Studio.For more about how to modify a previously created offline installation of Visual Studio, see:

The following procedures assume you have an internet connection.

For more information, see User permissions and Visual Studio. If you try to modify Visual Studio as a typical user, you'll get a User Account Control notice prompting you for admin credentials. To install, modify, or update Visual Studio, you must run the Visual Studio Installer as an administrator. To do so, open the new Visual Studio Installer and make the changes you want. Not only have we made it easier for you to personalize Visual Studio to match the tasks you want to accomplish, we've also made it easier to customize Visual Studio, too.
