I am using VS 2012 under windows 8.1.
You can't stop progress. For instance:
1) Scroll bars are drawn in a very light gray colour and the square that indicates the position of the page in the file is just light gray. Quite difficult to see if you do not look for it with attention. Of course, after looking for it you will eventually find it after a few seconds distraction.
2) The names of the recently used projects when you open visual studio is drawn in dark blue text over a black background. It is impossible to see unless you get a few centimeters from the screen. A work around is to hover the mouse pver the names and wait until a small tooltip appears indicating the path of the project under the mouse. It is very long and fastiduous exercise when you are looking for a specific project. HINT: use light colors on dark background, or dark text colors in a light background but dark blue in black is definitely a NONO!!!!
3) Microsoft has come a full circle to the same look of windows 3.0 when I started using this system: flat menus all in capital letters. All the guidelines of the last 15 years are thrown to the "recycle.bin" and here we go, as someone said: "The old new thing".
4) I tried to report a bug in Visual Studio in the "Add" buttton of the documentation. The issue is that when using the "band info" message for a ribbon band you have to set:
bandInfo.cbSize = 80;
instead of
bandInfo.cbSize = sizeof(REBARBANDINFO); // This is 128
If you do not set it to 80 the message will not work. I tried to report this but when I pressed the "send" message the answer of Microsoft server was:
There was an errror processing your request.
I hope this time I won't get the same answer.
Thanks in advance for your attention.