Several people asked me today what settings I use for Visual Studio after I twittered the following earlier today:
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.
And here is a web.config file view. Very simple color scheme.
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
posted @ Friday, March 05, 2010 3:22 PM