Lost formatting in Visual Studio

Question

I've lost all the color formatting in the source view in Visual Studio and can't get it back. I tried to import a new scheme but nothing helps.

Anyone?

Answer 1

Had this a while ago, these steps fixed it for me.

• close all running instances of Visual Studio
• open a "Run" window and type in devenv /resetuserdata

edit

perhaps this might work for you, its for 2012 but it might work for 2013

Here is a simple solution. Go to the directory where devenv is (for 2012 RC), and type devenv.exe /setup. It will fix your problem.

devenv.exe is usually in something like C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\Common7\IDE.

Edit: It has been suggested that you do this from the Visual Studio command prompt (Start>Microsoft Visual Studio>Tools>Visual Studio Command Prompt), and/or make sure your command prompt has administrator permissions.

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Answer 2

This did the trick!

devnev.exe /ResetSettings

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