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My Visual Studio Color Settings

Posted by Keith Elder | Posted in Visual Studio | Posted on 05-03-2010

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Several people asked me today what settings I use for Visual Studio after I twittered the following earlier today:

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Here’s what my environment looks like.  I use a dark theme.  I can’t tell you how important this was for me after I had eye surgery.  Still is, I can’t stand a lot of glare.

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And here is a web.config file view. Very simple color scheme.

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If you’d like to try this theme out then download the file below.  Within Visual Studio go to Tools->Import and Export Settings to import.  The changes will be immediate.  Let me know what you think.

UPDATE 3/6/2010

Shawn Wildermuth pointed out that my colors for editing XAML files was horrible.  I don’t edit XAML much and when I opened a XAML file it was as if I was viewing a color scheme designed a 2nd grader.  He was right.  Shawn took my file and updated it and now it is much better. Thanks Shawn!

Thus here is latest version with the XAML fix.

http://keithelder.net/VisualStudioSettings/FontAndColors/DarkElder.zip

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