A GUI is in the works for changing settings from within VS, but currently it requires manually updating the config.dat file located in the installation directory.
Revisions:
10/19/2012: v1.2 - Fixed a bug where some text/line highlighting was being obscured or changing color. The image is now being drawn in a lower "layer" to keep these conflicts from happening.
Description
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The Visual Studio 2012 Text Editor backround changer extension allows
you to customize the background of the normally boring text editor.
By default, when the extension is installed, a predefined image directory
and default image has been setup. These can be easily changed by modifying
the config.dat file within the extension's installation directory. The most common
installation location is:
C:\Users\<User Name>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\VisualStudio\11.0\Extensions\
Config.dat
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This is the primary method for manually adding/changing the background
image. By changing the contained parameters, the associated changes
will appear immediately the next time a new text editor window is opened.
There's no need to restart Visual Studio.
Config.dat Parameters
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img_directory: This is the location that the extension will seearch
when looking for the image defined in the img_name
property.
Default: The default location is [VSIXInstallDirectory]\Images
where [VSIXInstallDirectory] is interpreted by the extension to be
whatever folder the extension was installed into.
Any folder can be listed as long as the proper read/write
permissions are available on the folder.
img_name: The specific image name. Only .jpg and .png formats have been
tested, so your mileage may vary.
opacity: A 0.0 - 1.0 value which sets the images opacity. An opacity of 1.0
will have no opacity.
Default: The default opactiy is set at 0.35. This seems to be a
good blend to allow text to flow over the image without much
interference
location: There are 5 discrete position the image can be put. They are,
TopLeft, TopRight, BottomLeft, BottomRight and Center.
Default: The default watermark location is BottomRight.
fill: NOTE: This setting is still a little iffy. As of this version,
there are 4 discrete values that can be set, all corresponding
to the System.Windows.FrameworkElement's Stretch property.
None, Uniform, Fill, UniformToFill.
Default: The default value is None.
