Dec 07 2008
Color customization in CodeRush XPress
A while ago DevExpress introduced a new, totally free product for developers using Visual Studio – CodeRush XPress. I found it quite helpful, so it became one of the plugins I am using during my day to day developer activities. However, I was looking for possibility to change default colors (I have black background in my VS environment, so not all the colors are easy to notice), and couldn’t find one. Recently, I have found the solution on DevExpress site. It’s a pity, that one must be aware of this magic key combination, instead of being able to configure plugin behaviour from VS options menu. Anyway, after pressing Ctrl+Shift+Alt+O (easy to remember, right? all the modifier keys and ‘O’ as in Options ;) you will see an option dialog, with dozen of things to change (or better: ‘personalize’):
