Visual Studio 2010 color theme

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Visual Studio 2010 color theme

Has anyone found/made any decent color themes for Visual Studio 2010?

My VS 2005/2008 themes seem to be getting mangled in the upgrade process. I'm accustomed to using the ever famous Oren Ellenbogen's Dark Scheme featured on Scott Hanselman's blog, but the upgrade process has made it downright butt-ugly. Does anyone have any gems they'd like to share?

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I'm partial to Brad Wilson's Dark Visual Studio Theme.

I made a couple of modifications to make block highlighting and things like that look better under VS2010 and have been happy with it.

Justin Niessner 2010-02-24 19:43:30

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So I gave up my search in finding a VS2010 theme that I liked, so I conjured up my own. I posted it on my blog if anyone is interested.

James Jones 2010-02-25 13:56:04

Wow, a [your name].name URL! I thought society had reached consensus that people were indistinguishable from commercial entities and therefore should use .com URLs.

ElectricDialect 2010-02-25 14:07:54

I've been using this theme on 2008 and 2010. It uses a pleasant combination of dark gray for the backround, and shades of green. Check it out.

Haas 2010-04-06 14:43:29

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Great web site dedicated to sharing Visual Studio themes: http://studiostyles.info/

James Jones 2010-04-21 04:16:45

I'm using the default theme with some modifications to the fonts and colors, in particular I'm using 9 for Plain Text instead of 10, for keywords I'm using a dark blue (3,101,182) bold color (as I loved in the old days when I used Borland C++ IDE), and for Plain Text background I'm also using a gray color (243,243,243) as it's hard to focus on black on white

Ion Todirel 2010-04-21 04:29:24

The inclusion of "color themes" in VS 2008 and VS 2010 was (and is) a terrible idea. I've already defined the color scheme I want to use at the desktop / system level, and that's the "theme" that Visual Studio should be using. Period. Full stop.

2010-06-24 13:36:07

Down-vote this all you like. Doesn't change the fact that the <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa511258.aspx">Windows UX Guide</a> specifically states "Whenever possible, <b>choose colors by selecting the appropriate theme color or system color</b>" (emphasis *not* mine, btw). By *not* using the user-defined theme / system colors the team working on Visual Studio is violating Microsoft guidelines -- and making VS look like it's been trowled over with clown makeup in the process.

2010-06-25 12:58:01

Upvote - jerhewet has a point regarding main windows colors. It's one thing for chrome to ignore the 'Windows Theme' colors for the browser UI, but the latest dev environment from MS should look good on the latest OS from MS (if released around the same time). I'm using a grey OS theme in Win7 and VS looks horrible (clown makeup is accurate). By default the theming in VS should (and does) focus on editor colors - theming these completely makes sense for the highly specialized text editor(s), which is what this thread is mainly about.

crtracy 2010-08-03 17:50:38

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