Integrated Color Picker for Visual Studio IDE.

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This tool will very useful if you are working as a Web Developer or UI designer, who mainly uses Visual Studio for the day to day assignments.

This tool offers the below options,

• Highlight colors in Visual Studio Document Editor (.css”, “.scss”, “.less”, “.asp”, “.aspx”, “.htm”, “.html”, “.cshtml”, “.vbhtml”, “.xaml” are enabled by default), Additional Parsing, Customize using Tools-Options-ColorPicker.
• Edit color using double click from any enabled file (editor).
• Insert colors to any active text document
• Color Selection from Color Canvas.
• Color Selection from Available Colors.
• Color Selection from Standard Colors.
• Color Selection from Saved Colors.
• Color Selection using Eyedropper.
• Copy\Paste Color codes (Name, #HEX, rgb, rgba, hsl, hsla, hsb\hsv, cmyk). rgb and rgba are offered in different formats.
• Selected color’s Tints & Shades.
• Color code comparison of Orginal and New.

Currently this tool works with below Visual Studio versions (Visual Studio Theme supported),,

• Visual Studio 2012.
• Visual Studio 2013.
• Visual Studio 2015.
• Visual Studio 2017.

Color Picker can be accessed via Tools->Color Picker (will open a  Dockable Window).

Tools-Options-Color Picker

Editor

 

I have uploaded the initial source code in CodeProject. Please share your suggestions and feedback.