Visual Studio's horrendous colorization of CDATA XML blocks in VB.

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It really hurts the eyes. I'm using XML Literals as in https://stackoverflow.com/a/1674434/614263 so that I can conveniently have many lines of SQL in my VB.NET program. When I need sql's '<>' (not equal), I'm forced to use CDATA, and VS colorizes those just plain horrible. It's like a super-light grey.

Has anyone encountered this and knows how to fix it, or workaround it?

Take a look at [this site](http://studiostyl.es/) of pre-made color themes for VS — Steve, May 21 '13 at 21:51

OneFineDay · Accepted Answer · 2015-05-14T19:00:55.683

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Go into the options and change it to the color of your choice.

Tools > Options > Environment > Fonts and Colors > show setting for - text editor.

VB XML CData Section

edited May 14 '15 at 19:00

answered May 21 '13 at 21:49

OneFineDay

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Well, right direction, but you don't give the final answer, which settings to change. – Steve May 21 '13 at 21:52
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Yep, there is a "VB XML CData Section" item. Thanks! – unnknown May 21 '13 at 22:03

Visual Studio's horrendous colorization of CDATA XML blocks in VB.

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