After importing my color scheme from Visual Studio 2008 into Visual Studio 2010 I found a problem with the color used to highlight references. The background highlight shows up on the text under the caret for things like variables, functions, classes, etc. and any text that is a reference.

I created a short video to show how to deal with this issue.

The setting in Visual Studio 2010 is under the Tools…Options menu.

Go to Environment… fonts and colors… Display item Highlighted Reference and change the item background.  If you want to get rid of the Highlighted Reference color then choose an item background of Automatic.

I hope this helps someone

I’ve wanted floating code windows in Visual Studio for a long time now. Visual Studio 2010 now supports it I created a short video showing floating code windows in Visual Studio 2010 release candidate 1.

I haven’t played Starcraft in forever and decided to play it again. I went out and bought a copy which surprisingly is still in the store given its age. I was a bit worried about being able to get Starcraft to run on 64 bit Windows 7 but I found a solution on Youtube from JimmyRogain that works for me.

I thought this solution was very insightful. Nice fix

I’m running Starcraft on 64 bit Windows 7 using a batch file like the one described in the video. I’ve included a sample batch file you can download from this link. If you are running 64 bit you’ll need to change the path to Program Files (x86) or change the path to your installation directory.

I hope this helps Happy crafting

EDIT:

These are the compatibility settings I use for the starcraft.exe file.

I haven’t tried the various permutations, but what is pictured seems to work for me.