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Choose a programming font

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Choose a programming font

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- [Instructor] You spend a lot of time reading code. Let's look at ways to change the typeface and font sizes. I'll start by looking at a feature called font zooming. Set your focus somewhere in the code editor, hold down the control key, and use your mouse wheel. Make it smaller if your mouse one direction. And if you wheel the other direction, it makes it larger. Visual Studio keeps the sizes consistent between editors. When I switch to my XML editor, and my other CS file, I see that it has the same font size. Now let's make it smaller by going and choosing this drop-down and picking a smaller size. So rather than using the mouse wheel, you can also use this technique. And this can be used to customize a size if you have a perfect size, like 112%, that you like. Just type in the number here, press enter. Set it back to 100% and let's talk about type faces. The one that comes with Visual Studio is called Consolas. This is a font that was created for Microsoft, and it's optimized for…

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