{"id":5651,"date":"2012-04-01T12:27:34","date_gmt":"2012-04-01T11:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/?p=5651"},"modified":"2012-04-01T12:27:34","modified_gmt":"2012-04-01T11:27:34","slug":"developers-dislike-monochrome-visual-studio-11-beta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/5651-developers-dislike-monochrome-visual-studio-11-beta.html","title":{"rendered":"Developers dislike monochrome Visual Studio 11 beta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft is having trouble convincing developers that its new Metro-influenced Visual Studio user interface, in the forthcoming version now in beta, is a good idea.<\/p>\n<p>To be more precise, it is not so much Metro, but the way Microsoft has chosen to use it, with toolbox icons now black and white. The change also affects menus such as IntelliSense in the code editor. Here is the new design:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/image.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"image\" style=\"border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/image_thumb.png\" width=\"400\" height=\"342\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>or you can choose a \u201cDark\u201d colour scheme:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/image1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"image\" style=\"border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/image_thumb1.png\" width=\"401\" height=\"343\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>and the old 2010 design for comparison:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/image2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"image\" style=\"border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/image_thumb2.png\" width=\"401\" height=\"343\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Developers voting on this over at <a href=\"http:\/\/visualstudio.uservoice.com\/forums\/121579-visual-studio\" target=\"_blank\">UserVoice<\/a>, the official feedback site, have made this the single biggest issue, with 4707 votes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/image3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"image\" style=\"border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/image_thumb3.png\" width=\"404\" height=\"291\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>They do not much like the All Caps in the toolbox names either.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft has marked this as \u201cUnder review\u201d so maybe there could yet be a more colourful future for Visual Studio 11.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft is having trouble convincing developers that its new Metro-influenced Visual Studio user interface, in the forthcoming version now in beta, is a good idea. To be more precise, it is not so much Metro, but the way Microsoft has chosen to use it, with toolbox icons now black and white. The change also affects &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/5651-developers-dislike-monochrome-visual-studio-11-beta.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Developers dislike monochrome Visual Studio 11 beta<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,55,80,94],"tags":[580,955,999],"class_list":["post-5651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-development","category-microsoft","category-software-development","category-visual-studio","tag-metro","tag-visual-studio","tag-windows-8"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}