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>> Hi everyone. I'm Atlas with
Visual Studio Team and I am so excited to talk to you
today about visual updates here in Visual Studio 2022.
We're going to talk about some of the dark theme options, icons,
and accessibility, and really focus on the lines of
making your experience more productive as a developer.
Without further ado, let's hop into it.
Now that we're in Visual Studio 2022,
you may have already noticed some initial changes.
We have some icons here,
we have a different dark theme,
so if you're a dark theme user,
you may notice the slight change.
We have a different highlight color here.
The focus here with these changes and with these updates as
well as the new font that we have as
an option for [inaudible] is all to focus on reducing
eye strain and increasing
productivity as a developer in Visual Studio.
If you're used to going through
your process as this
is my dark theme and this is what I'm used to,
there's always a way also to get back
to that original path as well.
We have an extension available for you
to install the previous dark theme if you're interested.
Let's focus on some of the changes that we have here in
our new dark theme as well as identifying some of these new icons.
When we focused on testing these changes with customers,
we really focused on three main principles,
which is the consistency,
legibility, and familiarity of our icons.
Here in these updates and these changes,
you can see that the actual structure
of the icons haven't changed much.
You'll still be able to recognize the icons that you know and
love but you may have some different highlighting here too.
When we focused on some of these changes,
we really wanted to identify where are
the highest contrasts also
available to increase our accessibility for customers.
In the testing that we did,
we really focused on where can we
reduce confusion by making our selections really
clear and crisp while still keeping eye strain to a minimum
by allowing for a consistent,
easy on the eyes dark theme experience.
Just as an example, we can pull up Visual Studio 2019.
You can see that we have a different kind
of bolder highlight color.
So we were trying to reduce that to make
sure that we really focus on what content is
important to you inside
your editor experience and inside of your main tool paths.
Just as a reminder,
when we go through any of these different aspects
of visual changes or UI changes,
we really want to focus on keeping you
productive and not getting in the way.
We tried to really clear that path
and make it as minimal in the changes as
possible and really focused on your freedom to choose
whatever theme you'd want and whatever level,
whether that's a different editor font
or whether that's a different theme,
you can also choose that as well in high contrast mode.
All of these options just wanted to pull up
our Tools options window here to go over
some of those environment features that
you may want to customize as well.
Just as a reminder,
anytime that you need to customize
your environment, go into Tools options.
You can go into these different tabs and
customize your theme as well as your fonts and colors.
This is where you can see I have the Cascadia Code,
which is a new font option,
as well as the option for Cascadia Mono,
which is our new default editor text as well and font.
Anytime that you're in here,
you can also customize your tasks and your window layouts.
Just as a reminder,
we really want to make sure that this is as easy
an experience for you and as customizable for you as well.
Those are the visual updates and changes that we
have coming out in Visual Studio 2022.
As always, we'd love to hear your feedback as
you're trying out these features and giving it a go.
You can always reach out to us at
developercommunity.visualstudio.com and
feel free to give feedback to the team because we
want to hear what your experience is.
Thank you for tuning in and we'll see you next time.