How to change background color of 'code definition' window in Visual Studio 2008?

Question

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Answer 1

"Open Tools->Options->Fonts and Color. Change the background color of the text editor and all text tool windows."

There is however a bug there :

"I have changed the background color for the code definition window in VS2008. However, when I close VS and open it again, the background color returns to the default color."

Response from microsoft :

" Thank you for reporting this bug. We didn't discover it in time to fix it for Beta1, but you should see it fixed for the next release of VS 2010."

Link to the error report and a patch that will fix the problem here.