Turn Off the Uppercase Menu in Visual Studio 2012

re: Turn Off the Uppercase Menu in Visual Studio 2012

John — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 20:58:08 GMT

Is there a way (registry setting) to do this for 'All Users' rather than just the 'Current User' ?

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zainnab — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 16:46:45 GMT

Hey Msm8bball :)

Is that confirmed? I don't use the express products ever so have no clue. If that is confirmed then I will change it in the post.

re: Turn Off the Uppercase Menu in Visual Studio 2012

msm8bball — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 16:30:58 GMT

The correct location for Visual Studio 2012 Windows Desktop Express is...

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\WDExpress\11.0\General

re: Turn Off the Uppercase Menu in Visual Studio 2012

D Kram — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 16:56:27 GMT

Perfect. Thank you.

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zainnab — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 14:18:48 GMT

Thanks Paddy :)

I'm not aware of any way to change the case inside work items but hopefully the folks in charge of that feature will offer an option to change it.

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Paddy — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 16:01:32 GMT

Thanks Z, this was really useful. Is there a way of removing the upper case in Work Items? These are still showing as DETIALS, ANALYSIS... etc.

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zainnab — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 12:52:40 GMT

Yeah I agree. Not sure who thought this would be a good idea but it defintiely makes my list of dumbest changes.

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angry dev — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 02:34:38 GMT

If they left this crap along than we would have to waste time behind this mess

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zainnab — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 02:02:27 GMT

Oliver,

You can pretty much go back to the VS2010 look and feel using this post to fix the menus and then using the Blue color theme from the Visual Studio Color Theme Editor (details on usage in an article to be posted tomorrow 1/31/2013 on this blog):

visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/366ad100-0003-4c9a-81a8-337d4e7ace05

re: Turn Off the Uppercase Menu in Visual Studio 2012

Oliver Smith — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 01:54:50 GMT

Someone at Microsoft told them "Make it more like Metro". Original Metro - as manifest on Windows Phone 7, which started the ball rolling - is a complete reboot of the UI around touch, everything is touchable and thus there is no need for chrome. This message got lost somewhere in the pipes and became "Metro is about removing chrome" and then "remove the chrome from our apps".

It seems the VS team, like Hal, made a valiant effort. But on the rare occasion I open visual studio, I see the line of ::::::s in the window headers, someone's clever idea to mimic chrome without actually using chrome ... burst into tears and laughter, and go back to VS2010.

I've bought every version of this compiler all the way back to when it was SAS. I'm staying with 2010 until VS offers either a full metro or old-pre-metro style UI.