Is there any way to change this? Either the background or the foreground color would help. Mine is pretty much unreadable at the moment.
With the Theme Editor extension installed, go to Theme > Customize Colors
Modify the values of CommandBarMenuBackgroundGradientBegin and CommandBarMenuBackgroundGradientEnd to change the background color.
The background color of the file icon can be changed with CommandBarMenuIconBackground.
For Default look and feel of Visual Studio you can go and reset your Environment Settings !
Tools > Import and Export Settings > Reset All Settings
But
You can use "Visual Studio Color Theme Editor" Extension. Click here
or You can go to http://www.studiostyl.es/ and download any theme you like then install on your machine.
by the way this is very nice post from Scott
Click here
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I've tried to make my Visual Studio more beautyful, so I downloaded Son of Obsidian color scheme from here. And then everething is okay, except scrollbars. Scrollbars are now not Visual Studio 2012 cool custom scrollbars, but Windows default scrollbars. I've tried to resel all preferences using "Import and Export options..." menu, but this won't work. Colors returned to default state, but scrollbars are the same Windows scrollbars. By the way, I'm using Dark theme. So question is how to return normal custom scrollbars back? This default are really very annoying.
Sounds like you need a clean install if the resets are not working.
To get a clean "Son of Obsidian" or other themes that don't affect scroll bars, go here.
Also see the Visual Studio Color Theme Editor extension for your version of studio that lets you manage your themes. This should get you back to default theme settings or assist in creating new default theme settings.
After that, you can tweak some hard to find Map Mode Scroll Bar colors in the Visual Studio 2012-13
Tools>options>Environment>FontsAndColors>TextEditor>
Display Items:
Overview background
Overview caret
Overview collapsed region
Overview visible
The dark blue background in the Visual Studio 2010 IDE is driving me nuts. How can I change the background to a slate silver color?
You can do that in Tools / Options and then Environment / Fonts And Colors and there is a setting for background color.
Or even better you can choose from predefined styles at http://studiostyl.es/, these style setting works for Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Studio 2010 for all versions, including the express :
http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2010/04/29/download-and-share-visual-studio-color-schemes.aspx
I use this one:
http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/20cd93a2-c435-4d00-a797-499f16402378?SRC=VSIDE
It will add a 'Theme' menu to the tool bar where you can change the colour scheme to a pre-set one, or define your own.
there is a site called https://studiostyl.es it contains a some of nice themes
download a theme you like
then go to tools>options>Environment>import and export setting
then you will see a textbox for team setting file
finally, put the path of your downloaded setting file, then press ok
I have been looking for , lets use the word "mods", for visual studio left and right to be able to change the background and font color of the code editor for quite a while now. This is a simple question and hopefully not a duplicate of Is it possible to change backround color of editor and autocomplete tooltips in Visual Studio?. If I can refine my question a bit more, is it possible to manually change the background color of the code and text editor, or does mods or plugins or addons exist somewhere to do this feature for me? My eyes are straining on the white background...
I am using visual studio 2010
From the main menu, go to Tools -> Options. From there open up Environment -> Fonts and Colors. If you don't want to spent the time configuring it that way (which would be completely understandable), download the theme editor, or pick and download a nice theme at http://studiostyl.es/
Within VS2010 I'm using a dark/pastel color scheme. SP2010 Feature Designer has a Manifest tab with a Preview of Packaged Manifest read-only XML pane.
As you can see from the two screenshots, there is text in the pane, but it's basically invisible due to the background pane color.
Is there any way to change the font color, from that light gray to something else? I've tried changing several display items within Tools\Options\Environment\Fonts and Colors with no luck.
As a last resort, is there a way to change the pane background color? (although I guess it'll change that for the whole VS IDE)
Thanks all.
Feature manifest preview, unselected:
Feature manifest preview, selected:
In the end I've found a workaround for this ... for whoever (?) might care.
Download Visual Studio Color Theme Editor extension.
If you need help choosing some specific UI color, download any desktop color picker tool, i.e. Just Color Picker.
From a VS SharePoint project, open some Feature manifest or Package manifest preview so to apply and check the ongoing results.
From within VS, create a new custom theme based on Default. Sort the items by name and look for the couple ProjectDesignerBackgroundGradientBegin/End.
Change both to some darker color, like 475B7E.
This is how it looks like:
Being a Dark Theme sort of guy I've settled on using the Visual Studio 2012 Dark Theme for Visual Studio 2010 which provides a great new look for VS2010.
You'll also need to install the Visual Studio Color Theme Editor and then import the [VS2012-Dark-for-2010.vstheme] file using the Theme, Customize Colors..., Import Theme meu options.
There's a lot of new things going on in the Productivity Power Tools extensions, and I find that many of the new features come with very weird color combinations, that many times make the text completely illegible. I assume this is because I've previously set a dark theme for Visual Studio, and some, but not all, of the settings that affect the extension have been changed.
Are there any good dark themes out there that have been put together after the Productivity Tools Extension was published, that create a unified color theme for both VS and the extension features?
Clarification: This question is not about color schemes for code, such as those found at studiostyles. I'm talking about color schemes that apply to the development environment itself; toolboxes, menus, tooltips, windows, buttons...
Install the Visual Studio Color Theme Editor extension:
Make your own color scheme or try: The Dark Expression Blend Color Theme (preview below)
Once you have that, you'll want schemes for the text editor as well. This site has several, including the VS2012 "dark" theme implemented for VS2010.
There is a style that I've created based on dark style from VS 2015 to use on my VS 2010. You can download this style from Dark Style from VS 2015.
After download it, just import through menu Tools -> Import and Export Settings...
So, I tested above themes and found out none of them are showing proper color combination when using Productivity Power Tools in Visual Studio.
Ultimately, being a fan of dark themes, I created one myself which is fully supported from VS2005 to VS2013.
Here's the screenshot
Download this dark theme from here: Obsidian Meets Visual Studio
To use this theme go to Tools -> Import and Export Setting... -> import selected environment settings -> (optional to save current settings) -> Browse select and then Finish.
Not sure if any of these help, but this might get you started: http://studiostyles.info
I know that the site owner has been gradually adding functionality to allow support for new color assignments, so perhaps there's something there.
You can also try this handy online tool, which generates .vssettings file for you.
Visual Studio Color Theme Generator