Highlighted Text background and foreground - How to change?

Question

Here is my scenario. I like my color scheme. I have a dark blue background with light grey text. I have the Plain Text option in VS 2010 in Tools | Options | Environment | Fonts and Colors set to be a dark grey for the foreground and dark blue for the background:

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But I need to fix this major problem/annoyance which is when I highlight some text and then lost focus with my mouse it turns almost completely white!

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And worse, when I mouse over the little section lines of code on the left, the selection of the entire editor goes white with a light grey foreground for text:

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Not able to figure out where and how to fix this. I don't see a way. Note: I'm using R# 5.0+ so I don't know if that has anything to do with this color issue or what...maybe it's overriding some VS stuff or this is just a VS issue I don't know..probably just not looking in the right area under Fonts and colors...but a lot of the item foreground elements are read only.

UPDATED:

I think it might be (not sure) this one but I can't test it as the foreground is locked and not editable:

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Answer 1

FWIW I had this problem without ReSharper and in my case tracked it down to the Brace Matching (Rectangle) color setting which looked nothing like what I was seeing in the editor but allowed me to fix the issue anyway.

Answer 2

So this is weird but I was having the same problem and it simply went away when I went to Tools->Options->Environment->Fonts and Colors and changed the font size to 18. I then went back in the same menu and changes it back to 10 (default) and the editor no longer highlights the collapsible regions white. Strange behavior.

Answer 3

I had this same problem (much later) with VS 2010 and R# 7.1.

Disable the "Highlight current line" option in ReSharper > Options > Environment > Editor.

That option, when enabled, causes the VS 2010 color options for Highlighted Reference to not apply.

Answer 4

I believe the setting you are looking for is "Inactive Selected Text". Found while trying to figure out why my selected search texts were not highlighted in an obvious manner.

Might be a year late... answering for future searches.

Answer 5

The highlight for matching references is the "Highlighted Reference" background color (as Sean Copenhaver pointed out).

The highlight for the outlining region hover is "Collapsed Region" (as Brandon Satrom pointed out in his comment on the original question). The foreground color is the color used in the outlining margin and the background color is the color used under the text. You can also disable that highlight by disabling Tools->Options->Environment->General->Enable rich client visual experience, though that will disable other things (animations, gradients, etc.)

The brace matching rectangle is the highlight that appears when you insert or put the caret on a brace (e.g. ")", "]", "}"). It only lets you override the background color because you can't use it to change the foreground (text) color.

Answer 6

ReSharper is indeed overriding some of your settings, but those settings can be found in the same screen, towards the bottom of the listbox.

In Tools | Options | Environment | Fonts and Colors, scroll to the bottom of the 'Display Items:' listbox, and you should see a series of settings that start with ReSharper. For instance, the 'ReSharper Current Line Highlight` was causing me issues when I changed my theme to use a dark background.

Hope that helps.

Answer 7

I'm pretty sure your first problem can be solved by setting the colors on the 'Highlighted Reference' option in the Fonts and Colors window. If ReSharper is override this setting I couldn't tell you. I don't have it installed on this machine. As for your second problem I have no idea.

If you get too irritated at trying to figure out the color options you could also try Studio Styles for pre-made ones. I believe that is where I got the one I use currently.