It is really so relaxing to use dark or blue background for editor so i interested in Visual Studio color themes.
I found alot of them which was looking nice at first sight but i realized all of them has ugly problems when i use them. Color settings wasn't tuned well in all scenario so there were a lot of time that i can not read my codes.
I love Ruby theme so is there any well designed settings for ruby theme or any theme ?
All the Visual Studio themes you can shake a stick at.
I love the wombat color scheme in Vim and so I looked around and found this: My attempt at converting the VIM Wombat theme to support Visual Studio
Works fine for me in VS2008.
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I love dark themes in my development environments but can't find a way to make the resources editor (particularly strings) of Visual Studio dark too. My VS version is 2015 Professional.
Here's how I see it:
while the rest of the UI looks like this:
There is an extension for the Visual Studio 2015 Enterprise that changes the theme color of every element of the IDE. Just search themes and you get a lot of extensions and 90% of them work, you can even set up some transparent background for your coding environment and even add some music(mostly trance) that changes and helps you concentrate while coding.
If you inspect the resx editor using inspect.exe tool, you can see its a Winforms data grid view. It does not honor WPF styles. According to my understanding VS is built using WPF changes the themes via WPF style feature.
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.datagridview(v=vs.110).aspx
as you may know Visual Studio doesn't offer the same degrees of freedom when it comes to Syntax Highlighting as Sublime Text 2 does (subject to opinion/bias, this is mine), however, Resharper does have some abilities when it comes to syntax highlighting to improve on Visual Studio's default highlighting.
So that being said, before I start making my own, does anyone have a Monokai - the default Sublime Text 2 theme - for Resharper?
I know I can use studiostyl.es - however those themes are for Visual Studio only, so the Monokai themes there are only roughly equivalent to the Monokai offered in ST2.
if anyone has the theme, could you paste it here?
Thanks. :)
You can check the theme I created a while ago.
It doesn't contains ReSharper colors yet, but they can be easily added from original dark theme included in the repository.
I edited theme files manually to support them quite easy to understand and make color changes.
test this link .... and enjoy it !
there is a lot of sublime text monokai schemes for visual studio but this one is a fresh and clean item.
you can select your VS version and click download to get suitable version of theme file.
see bellow link :
https://studiostyl.es/schemes/monokai
I have recently started using Visual Studio 2010 and ReSharper 5.1. It's working pretty well for me so far except for this one issue which I'm hoping someone has the answer for. Basically, like many others, I tend to use a dark colour scheme to improve readability over the default VS colour scheme. Having installed ReSharper I have noticed that when I navigate to a class name, the class name and any references to it get highlighted. That in itself is fine but with the colour scheme I've chosen, I'm getting a light-on-light combination which is unreadable.
I've gone through the Tools->Options->Fonts and Colors menu a few times but there doesn't seem to be an appropriate ReSharper item.
Here is a screenshot illustrating the highlighting problem
Set Highlighted Reference background color. It is not resharper one.
Is there any way to make font smoothing more MacOS like in Visual Studio 2010? I used to do that with GDI++ in VS 2008, but obviously that won't work in new Visual Studio. Is it possible to tweak WPF font-smoothing manually?
If anyone doesn't know about GDI++ you can get it here. It is highly configurable, but the basic settings make fonts look like they do on MacOS, which is much better when you have white text on dark background.
Here's a link on some options to try:
Turning off ClearType, Adjust font smoothing on OS level, change the environment font in VS. Consolas font was an option they recommended in beta.
Here's a blog post on improving WPF font clarity.
There's a Visual Studio extension called Text Sharp that lets you change the font smoothing settings.
I have recently moved to a dark color theme for all my code editors. It is much easier on the eyes. But I recently came across an issue that I can’t figure out how to correct and was hoping that someone will have an answer.
When the method info box pops up this is what it looks like this:
Notice the method info is unreadable because the colors in the theme are meant for a dark background. How can I change the background of this popup?
The theme is a modified version of Coding Instinct available on StudioStyles. Here is my modified version. It sets the background for the linenumbers/marker margin plus some other minor tweaks.
It's Visual Studio 2010 Pro Power Tools extension causing the issue. Someone on the Q&A discussion thread for Visual Studio 2010 Pro Power Tools said:
it seems that the Fonts and Colors selection for "Signature Help Tooltip Background" is the Text Editor color definition that effects this.