How to: Colorize the Visual Designer Entities

This article is relevant to entity models that utilize the deprecated Visual Studio integration of Telerik Data Access. The current documentation of the Data Access framework is available here.

Telerik Data Access allows you to change the colors of the entities within the visual designer, as well as the background of the designer.

To change the color of an entity:

1. Select the target entity in the Visual Designer.
2. Press F4 to open the Property Window. You could change the following properties regarding the color of the entity:
   1. Fill Color – change the background color.
   2. Outline Color – change the color of the border.
   3. Text Color – change the foreground.

To change the background of the Visual Designer:

1. Open the Visual Designer.
2. Press F4 to open the Property Window. Modify the Fill Color property.