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Customize the code font colors

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Customize the code font colors

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- [Instructor] We're going to look at how to change any of the individual colors and typefaces for the Visual Studio IDE. For this example, I'm going to change the colors only, not the typeface itself. I'd like to change the color of the line numbers down the left side of the screen. Also, I want to change the comments so they look more like they're highlighted, and then I've never been a fan of the brace matching rectangle. When you put your cursor next to a brace, it shows you the matching brace down here, it's called the brace matching highlight. It's this light gray, I'm going to make them more colorful. Now, of course we don't need this as much as we did in the past because for one, we now have dotted lines drawn between our braces, and in Visual Studio 2022, we can turn on colorized braces, but we don't draw lines between parentheses and between square brackets, so this is still useful. To change the value, I'll go to tools, options, and then I'll go to environment, fonts and…

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