One of the things I end up doing sometimes in Visual Studio is copying blank lines. It’s not that I want to copy a blank line…it’s simply that I get interrupted while using ctrl+c/ctrl+v and end up messing things when I return to the desk. Since I’ve just ended up copying another blank line, I’ve lost a few seconds and opened the options window to see if I could control it from there. And yes, I can:

And there you go: no more blank line copying for me! (I’m blogging about this now because I’m currently using VS 2010 without resharper! If I had resharper, things would be much better :),,)

If you enjoy dark themes and love VS 2010, then you know you’re into trouble. The problem is that VS looses the dark background after being closed and you need to go to the options, fonts and colors and then apply the current settings (which still have the correct color) again.

The good news is that is no longer necessary. You just need to install the background patch extension from the VS gallery.

thanks for the fix guys!