RE: VS2012 hacks

2013-06-14 Thread Ian Thomas
Greg, Greg - I put it down to the UIX guru / fiend that obviously exerted great influence over the PMs and higher-ups in Microsoft. I can't stand Office 2013 - I appreciate some features, but find some of the behaviours and the UI itself just counter-productive (ie, anti my productivity). I don't

RE: VS2012 hacks

2013-06-14 Thread GregAtGregLowDotCom
Hi Greg, A number of other project templates aren't so great in VS either. Recently, they've released the BI tools for VS2012. In SSIS, the only difference between an enabled task and a disabled one is often how dark the name of the task is. That sort of thing is a big step backwards, particula

Re: VS2012 hacks

2013-06-14 Thread Greg Keogh
Ian (et al), I have also taken a lot of steps recently to restore old colours and behaviour to recent Microsoft product releases. I don't normally do that. We all expect complaints when new versions of products are released, but in my experience the noise quickly drops away and people just accept t

RE: VS2012 hacks

2013-06-14 Thread Ian Thomas
More Visual Studio Icon Patcher http://vsip.codeplex.com/ Visual Studio 2012 Color Theme Editor http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/366ad100-0003-4c9a-81a8-337d4e 7ace05 Visual Studio 2012 Color Theme Editor (Channel9 video) http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Visual-Studio-T