I have tried installing the Consolas font pack so that I can use it with VS 2005. For some reason it looks a lot bolder than Wikipedia's and Jeff Atwood's examples. I read something about anti-aliasing and I am trying that now. Any ideas on how to get it too look thin and sleak?
EDIT: Sorry found out. It has something to do with ClearType fonts. Turning it on sorted out all my problems.
It looks bolder when your Windows OS (XP?) has Font smoothing turned on.
Right click your Desktop > Properties > Appearance tab > Effects > "Use the following method to smoothe screen fonts".
Try changing it to ClearType / Standard / Turn it off. Keep switching back to VS and scroll up/down a bit to see the effect.
You can turn on the clearType by running through the wizard from MS website below,
http://www.microsoft.com/typography/cleartype/tuner/step1.aspx