I watch a lot of tutorials on the web, expesially ASP.NET tutorials - And constantly notice that everyone seems to have VS set with a black background and yellow/white text?
Why is this? and how can I set up my version to look like it?
Thanks
It is Rob Conery's TextMate theme that you want.
After Download in Studio ... Tools > Import & export settings and follow the wizard.
Share and enjoy!
Edit: Link updated
For VS2012 :
if you want to simply change the default black and white background then ;
Go to Tools ->Options -> Environment -> General.
Right side pan, you you will see Color theme drop down;select Dark or light in order to get basic black and white background.
if you want to change default color,Font or Font size then you select ;
Tools ->Options -> Environment -> Fonts and Colors
Now, Visual Studio 2012 supports black theme.
To change to black theme :
Tools -> Options -> Visual Experience -> Color theme
Check out shanselmans blog article about this, he lists quite a few of them, so pick one you like. Personally, I've got the Monaco font installed, and I love it!
In Visual Studio 2017 you can do the following:
Tools -> Options.. -> Environment -> General -> Color theme -> Dark -> OK
you can do this by taking visual studio tools - > options - > font and colors and set what ever you want in font and text.
If you want some background image means : try this tool
I personally find it easier to read, and the colors can have more subtle hues and convey more meaning for me.
I used this scheme to start with: https://web.archive.org/web/20080116232122/http://www.agileprogrammer.com/dotnetguy/archive/2006/09/07/19030.aspx
Go to VS -> Tools -> Options.
It has list of settings you can change.
For changing color; look left side pane and select Fonts and color.
You also can change default Item foreground and item background color as your wish from right side pane.
In VS 2015, go to tools>>options>>environment>>general>>dark
That's the theme I see most people use, and it feels much better on the eyes.
Select : Tools > Options > General > Color Theme > Dark
You can also change the font by selecting :
Select : Tools > Options > General > Fonts and Colors > ...
For me:
Tools > Options > Environment > Color theme(from dropdown select): > Blue
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Installed One Dark Pro theme for Microsoft Visual Studio 2022, I like everything. But it gets annoying when line number active then its color is black, how to change it? I rummaged through the settings in Tools / Options / Fonts and color, but did not find a solution (
delved into the settings, googled
Try changing the "Line Number (Current)" property in the same window (Tools → Options → Environment → Fonts and Colors):
Recently, I changed the appearance of my R studio to Xcode. I liked its text color on the scripts part but didn't like the color on the console. It doesn't have a different color option for error and warning messages. So, I want to go back to the default one, whatever the R Studio comes with. How can I do it?
The default RStudio theme is 'Modern' the default editor theme is TextMate.
To change the Editor theme to default you must go to Tools -> Global Options -> Appearance. Then, in the Editor theme section you have to select TextMate(defauilt) which is the default editor theme you have when you install RStudio.
If you are trying to change the appearance you can do this by going to Tools -> Global Options -> Appearance. There are several options for the Rstudio theme and the editor.
The RStudio Support describes this in greater depth.
The default blue color is unreadable on the gray background:
I couldn't find any option inside Tools > Options > Environment > 'Fonts and Colors' that controlled that particular color. How do I modify that color?
EDIT:
Looks like either VS or Resharper finally fixed the default color. It looks like this now, without me having to change anything:
So, string in C# it's a keyword that means you can simply modify this blue color for all keywords by setting
Tools -> Options -> Environment -> Fonts and Colors -> Settings for Text Editor -> Keyword -> Item foreground
parameter in Visual Studio settings.
There is the resharper extension EnhancedTooltip. As far as I know it uses the same colors a the editor window. You can install it from ReSharper -> Extension Manager ... .
I strain to read the tabs in the source code editor of Visual Studio 2012.
I don't even understand what the different colors mean? They seem totally random. Black on brown or black on blue.... who choose that?
So I would like to turn off the colouring for the tabs and revert to black on white, or a light grey.
I've looked in:
Options>> Environment (General / Font and Colors)
but I cant see anything relevant. So how can I do this please?
Looks like you might have Productivity Power Tools installed? If so turn off Custom Document Well or look in the Options > Productivity Power Tools > Custom Document Well > Advanced, there is an option to set colour to Visual Studio.
Or you could set: (In VS2015)
Options > Productivity Power Tools > Custom Document Well > Advanced
Then under Colors and Gradients panel, in the Selected Tab drop down choose VS Colors ,
This allows you to keep colored tabs by project yet highlights the selected tab clearly, win win...
My selected Tab is now bright Blue all the time.
The colors of each tab comes from productivity power tools. For each project power tools assign a colors, so developer can easily detect a file(if contain same name) belongs to which project.
For VS 2013 & 2015 you can easily remove those color by unchecked Colors tab by project following below steps
go to Tools > Options > Productivity Power Tools > Custom Document Well > General
I just installed MSVS2010 Ultimate & I've noticed something which is somewhat annoying & conflicting with my syntax highlighting, as can be seen:
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As can be seen, when a keyword/function/variable/etc is highlighted all other instances of the aforementioned are highlighted too. This is somewhat annoying.
Is there any way to disable this?
This is considered a new feature of Visual Studio 2010.
But a fast trick to disable is following these steps:
Tools -> Options -> Environment -> Font and Colors
Choose the item Highlighted Reference
Set its color equal to the background you are using (i suppose a
really dark gray from your screenshot)
I like this feature but I tuned the color a bit to have it only little more lighter than the background :)
When using Visual Assist, find "VA X Find Reference" in Display Items
(Tools -> Options -> Environment -> Font and Colors)
Looks like it might be Visual Assist X. If you have that installed, disable "Automatically highlight references..." on the Advanced | Refactoring page of the VA Options dialog .
This is a new feature from VS IDE to show you other changes tothis object. but ifyoudo not like it you can easily changed it by pressing
CTRL + ALT + Spacebar
you can read detail in my blog
updtae : thismentioned in VS2010 official Website here
You also can try CTRL+SHIFT+DOWN ARROW or CTRL+SHIFT+UP ARROW. see the VS page