Friday, July 17, 2009

Visual Studio Fonts and Colours

I got tired of the colours in VS2008 so asked on twitter if anyone has some themes. Got a good response of links to themes.

Here are the main links I was sent:

Scot Hanselman’s Blog
http://www.hanselman.com/blog/VisualStudioProgrammerThemesGallery.aspx
Iain Holder’s Blog
http://tech-nous.blogspot.com/2008/10/visual-studio-2008-colour-schemes.html
Is your IDE Hot or Not
http://idehotornot.ning.com/

Mohamed Meligy
http://geekswithblogs.net/Mohamed/archive/2007/08/20/Dark-Visual-Studio-With-Resharper---My-VS-Settings-Colors.aspx

If you use ReSharper  the normal settings people export don’t work correctly and you will have to do a lot of customisations yourself.

I based mine on Mohamed’s one and have done some changes, especially to XML and HTML views. I have found it much easier on my eyes and really enjoy it. So I thought I would share it with the interwebs.

image Please remember these Fonts and Colours are for VS2008 + R#

Tools | Import and Export Settings | Import selected environment settings | Yes, save my current settings | Browse |VS2008R#Dark-FontsColours.vssettings | make sure it is importing Fonts and Colours only | Finish | Enjoy

Let me know if you like them.