Visual Studio Themes
Posted by Rhonda Tipton on March 28, 2008
Every now and again, I get tired of looking at the same white background for coding in Visual Studio. I have started seeing several blog posts that deal with changing the color scheme of the editor in Visual Studio. Out of all the color schemes that I have found, I like the one from John Lam the best.
Below is the way to apply an outside color scheme:
First, find a color scheme that you like, download the .vssettings file and place it in the ..\Visual Studio 2008\Settings folder.
In Visual Studio, go to the Tools Menu and select Import and Export Setting…
Following the wizard - Select Import selected environment settings
Following the wizard - Select Yes, save my current settings. Choose to back up your current settings. This will help if you decide to go back to the original theme or something goes wrong with the one you are trying to apply.
Following the wizard - Find the *.vssettings file you want to import and select it.
Following the wizard - Select the settings to import - in this case I just selected all.
New editor theme
Pretty sweet to be able to go back and forth with themes - sometimes it just depends on my mood. This works with both Visual Studio 2005 and 2008.
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March 31, 2008 at 9:29 am
Wow - Black and Green… that will make my AS/400 RPG Programmers happy!