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Sun, Oct 14 2012 19:19

MZ-Tools Articles Series: HOWTO: Get an inverted bitmap to use with the Dark theme of Visual Studio 2012 from an add-in.

There is a feature in my MZ-Tools add-in that requires to show the pictures of its commands in a treeview, to select which ones to be visible or not. When using Visual Studio 2012 and the Dark theme, the background of the form and the treeview are darked...
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Fri, Oct 12 2012 11:04

MZ-Tools Articles Series: BUG: Visual Studio 2012 doesn't theme multiline textbox with initial scrollbar on add-in toolwindow.

This is one of the bugs that I found while theming my MZ-Tools add-in with VS 2012 Dark / Light themes: BUG: Visual Studio 2012 doesn't theme multiline textbox with initial scrollbar on add-in toolwindow. http://www.mztools.com/articles/2012/MZ2012028...
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Fri, Oct 12 2012 0:52

MZ-Tools Articles Series: HOWTO: Get the Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.Interop.IVsUIShell5 interface to theme a Visual Studio 2012 add-in.

Another building block that I have used to theme my MZ-Tools add-in with the Visual Studio 2012 Dark/Light themes: HOWTO: Get the Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.Interop.IVsUIShell5 interface to theme a Visual Studio 2012 add-in: http://www.mztools.com/articles...
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Wed, Oct 10 2012 8:22

MZ-Tools Articles Series: HOWTO: Theme scrollbars of controls on a Windows Forms modal window from a Visual Studio 2012 add-in.

I had pending for weeks to theme scrollbars of controls of my MZ-Tools add-in on modal forms (Visual Studio 2012 automatically themes scrollbars of controls on toolwindows) and finally yesterday I decided to devote some time to the investigation. Here...
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Sun, Sep 30 2012 2:03

MZ-Tools Articles Series: BUG: EnvDTE.FontsAndColorsItems.Item("Keyword").Background not updated after changing Visual Studio 2012 theme.

One of the things that you need to test in a Visual Studio 2012 add-in or package is that is themed correctly when the VS theme is changed dynamically from Dark to Light or viceversa (through the Tools, Options window). I noticed that sometimes the textboxes...
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Sun, Sep 2 2012 13:01

MZ-Tools Articles Series: HOWTO: Get the current theme and detect changing it from a Visual Studio 2012 add-in.

I am currently adding support for the Dark / Light themes of Visual Studio 2012 in my MZ-Tools 7.0 add-in for Visual Studio, which is resulting much harder than expected because there are a lot of issues. I will blog about them in a future post when the...
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Mon, Aug 20 2012 15:50

MZ-Tools Articles Series: BUG: Setting CommandBarPopup.Visible to False doesn't work when CommandBarPopup in context menu.

When I thought that I have fixed the bug that I explained in my last post , I found another subtle one: in VS 2010 and 2012, setting to False the Visible property of a CommandBarPopup was not honored if the CommandBarPopup was created on a context menu...
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Mon, Aug 20 2012 15:41

MZ-Tools Articles Series: BUG: CommandbarPopup.Caption changes CommandbarPopup.CommandBar.Name and viceversa.

A couple of days ago a customer of the new version MZ-Tools 7.0 for Visual Studio reported a bug regarding the dropdown menus visibility not preserved across Visual Studio sessions . I isolated the bug which happened to be a bug in the WPF-based commandbars...
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