The third change, related to contrast enhancement, has been to add colors to highlight different areas of the IDE, such as in the headers of the windows and tabs (tabs). Needless to say, the set of colors used is highly Metro style. Now it’s pretended to give more information using color when making any state change to the IDE. In the RC grays have been clarified, as seen in the pictures.Ī second change has been made to add color to the status bar. The gray colors dominating the Beta were way too dark and made the visualization of the various buttons or text menus much more difficult. Let’s look more closely at each of these improvements in the new version of Visual Studio 11. Obtains greater clarity and differentiation in buttons through color.Achieve a greater balance in the Metro style.Give the IDE more visual «energy» and contrast.We are told, the main part of change requests focused on three aspects: As we can see in the image below comparing the two versions of the new Visual Studio, we can see some changes in the RC over the Beta, which resemble more closely the usability achieved in VS2010, from my point of view the best IDE that Microsoft has developed so far.
With this new version of VS11, the Release Candidate (RC), it seems they have heard the critics and color came back. Since then it has received many reviews, most of them focusing on usability and color loss of its interface compared to the previous version, Visual Studio 2010. Since the launch of Visual Studio 11 Beta back in February, many of us decided to try this new version of the famous Microsoft IDE.
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