The VS 2005 IDE uses the system font settings for the components that used to use the "Dialogs and Tool Windows" setting.  If you really need to set this to something other than your system font, go to Display Properties (from control panel or by right-clicking on the desktop), select the "Appearance" tab, and click "Advanced".  In the "Item" dropdown, select "Icon", and change the font to the one you want.  VS 2005 draws its font settings from the "Icon" item, so if you change only that item, you can alter the VS font without affecting the rest of your system too much.

Hope that helps.
-Josh
VS Platform team

-----Original Message-----
From: Jake Montgomery
Posted At: Monday, November 14, 2005 11:30 AM
Posted To: microsoft.public.vsnet.ide
Conversation: Changing Dialog FOnt In 2005 IDE
Subject: Changing Dialog FOnt In 2005 IDE

In VS 2003, I could change the font that was used in the "Dialogs And Tools"  by using the Tools->Options->Environment->Fonts And Colors page,
and setting the "Dialogs And Tools Windows" item.   The main reason I
needed this is because I run large system font, and so things like the "Class View" tree, and Properties with that font simply show too little info to be useful.

Now I am looking at VS 2005, and I can not set the font for these items.  I have tried everything in Tools->Options->Environment->Fonts
and Colors.  This makes it really close to unusable for me.

Any help would be appreciated.  Perhaps I am missing a setting, or perhaps a plugin could change the fonts?