{"id":233723,"date":"2021-08-11T08:00:01","date_gmt":"2021-08-11T15:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/?p=233723"},"modified":"2022-01-16T16:48:00","modified_gmt":"2022-01-17T00:48:00","slug":"personalize-your-visual-studio-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/personalize-your-visual-studio-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Personalize Your Visual Studio 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of Visual Studio\u2019s core goals is to increase your individual and team productivity. And, one of our key focus areas is to make Visual Studio more personalized and flexible, so that you can make the IDE your own. Below, we&#8217;ll summarize some of the personalization features we\u2019ve shipped in our preview channel or plan to ship soon:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/personalize-docs\/\">Document management customizations to make you more productive<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/aka.ms\/vsthemes\">New flexible theming capabilities to make the environment yours<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Syncing capabilities so that you can be productive anywhere<\/li>\n<li>Tools that accommodate your habits and preferences<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/08\/Personalization_image.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-233724 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/08\/Personalization_image.png\" alt=\"Visual Studio Personalization\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" srcset=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/08\/Personalization_image.png 1200w, https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/08\/Personalization_image-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/08\/Personalization_image-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/08\/Personalization_image-768x432.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Your IDE should be uniquely yours. We know that developers like you have different ways to focus, learn, and code. We\u2019re on a journey to create the most flexible IDE ever<span class=\"TextRun BCX8 SCXW19354856\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun BCX8 SCXW19354856\">\u2014one <\/span><\/span>that helps everyone learn effectively and become more productive. In the next few weeks, we will be sharing a collection of blog posts that detail our upcoming features.<\/p>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_235194\" aria-labelledby=\"figcaption_attachment_235194\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" ><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/11\/Manage_documents_visual_studio.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-235194\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/11\/Manage_documents_visual_studio.png\" alt=\"More flexible and inclusive ways to manage your docs and tabs\" width=\"2011\" height=\"1176\" srcset=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/11\/Manage_documents_visual_studio.png 2011w, https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/11\/Manage_documents_visual_studio-300x175.png 300w, https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/11\/Manage_documents_visual_studio-1024x599.png 1024w, https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/11\/Manage_documents_visual_studio-768x449.png 768w, https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/11\/Manage_documents_visual_studio-1536x898.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2011px) 100vw, 2011px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"figcaption_attachment_235194\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Flexible and inclusive ways to manage your docs and tabs<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<h2>Code the way you want<\/h2>\n<p>We\u2019re introducing ways that make Visual Studio more flexible so you can learn, navigate, and write code the way you want to. We listened to your ideas on Developer Community and came up with a set of new capabilities that can improve your workflow and help you stay focused and organized. For example, we\u2019re planning to <a href=\"https:\/\/developercommunity.visualstudio.com\/t\/Color-coded-tabs-in-Visual-Studio\/351700?space=8\">implement the capability to group files by color<\/a>, so you don\u2019t have to hunt for an open file. Your <a href=\"https:\/\/developercommunity.visualstudio.com\/t\/Show-the-active-document-in-bold-in-Docu\/483734?space=8\">active document could be bolded so it\u2019s easier to find<\/a>. There are also ways to customize menus and toolbars to suit your exact workflow. Take a look at <a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/personalize-docs\/\">additional document management features here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_234618\" aria-labelledby=\"figcaption_attachment_234618\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" ><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/09\/Social-Image-Themes-Personalization.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-234618\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/09\/Social-Image-Themes-Personalization.png\" alt=\"Image Personalize Visual Studio with Community Themes\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" srcset=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/09\/Social-Image-Themes-Personalization.png 1200w, https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/09\/Social-Image-Themes-Personalization-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/09\/Social-Image-Themes-Personalization-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/09\/Social-Image-Themes-Personalization-768x432.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"figcaption_attachment_234618\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Personalize Visual Studio with Community Themes<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<h2>Be productive anywhere<\/h2>\n<p>The ability to sync your settings means that whether you\u2019re working from home or office, you\u2019ll stay productive. We have capabilities for syncing the settings that you care about, to the cloud, so that you can do your best work from wherever you find convenient. For example, a \u201cnight mode,\u201d with the <a href=\"https:\/\/developercommunity.visualstudio.com\/t\/Night-Mode\/499396?space=8&amp;q=theme+night\">ability to sync your Visual Studio theme with your Windows theme<\/a>, could improve readability at certain times of day, no matter which machine you\u2019re working on.<\/p>\n<p>Update: We&#8217;ve added <a href=\"https:\/\/aka.ms\/vsthemes\">a selection of new custom VS themes<\/a>, as well as a tool which helps you <a href=\"https:\/\/aka.ms\/themeconverter\">bring any VS Code theme into VS<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_233691\" aria-labelledby=\"figcaption_attachment_233691\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" ><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/08\/Theme_switching_visual_studio.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-233691 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/08\/Theme_switching_visual_studio.png\" alt=\"Visual Studio Personalization Sync with Sunset\" width=\"1000\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/08\/Theme_switching_visual_studio.png 1000w, https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/08\/Theme_switching_visual_studio-300x210.png 300w, https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/08\/Theme_switching_visual_studio-768x538.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"figcaption_attachment_233691\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Example of tools that accommodate your habits: syncing your theme with the sunset<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<h2>Get tools that accommodate your habits<\/h2>\n<p>Our new document management capabilities makes Visual Studio even more inclusive. We&#8217;re planning to build new features that can help developers who are neurodiverse or who have learning differences read and write code more comfortably, and help developers who have challenges with focus stay on task. We recently added <a href=\"https:\/\/developercommunity.visualstudio.com\/t\/allow-users-to-set-line-height\/896879\">a way to adjust line spacing in code<\/a> so that developers can read their code the way that\u2019s comfortable. We\u2019ve also <a href=\"https:\/\/developercommunity.visualstudio.com\/t\/Show-Close-Button-in-Tab-Well\/477173?space=8\">added new ways to manage documents<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/developercommunity.visualstudio.com\/t\/Modify-Tab-Size-in-Document-Well\/477175?space=8\">customize tabs<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/developercommunity.visualstudio.com\/t\/Show-the-active-document-in-bold-in-Docu\/483734?space=8\">keep track of the current document<\/a>, so that you can see a custom overview of your workspace before you pick what to focus on next.<\/p>\n<h2>Share your thoughts<\/h2>\n<p>We&#8217;re planning to release a set of capabilities that can accommodate a wide range of preferences to help you make the IDE yours, and we&#8217;re excited for you to try them in the new Preview.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;d like to hear your feedback. Please let us know what kind of personalization features you would like to see <a href=\"https:\/\/developercommunity.visualstudio.com\/search?space=8&amp;q=ide-personalization&amp;ftype=idea&amp;stateGroup=active\">by sharing feedback on Developer Community<\/a> or voting on a request that resonates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of Visual Studio\u2019s core goals is to increase your individual and team productivity. And, one of our key focus areas is to make Visual Studio more personalized and flexible, so that you can make the IDE your own. 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