Coloring VS Instances with SolutionColor

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Today's Visual Studio Extension is one you'll love if you constantly keep multiple instances of Visual Studio running (like I do). It's simple, yet once you see it, brilliant in hindsight (and it's open source too).

SolutionColor

Adds a toolbar that allows to set the color of the title bar on a per sln file basis. Chosen color is saved for every sln path and will be set on startup.

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The left button pops up a color picker, the right one resets the setting back to the Visual Studio default and removes the settings entry for the current sln file (if any).

Sample:

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(Text color is automatically chosen between white or black)

[Download it here]