A Tweaked Color Scheme for VS2005

Link. September 20, 2006. Comments [2]. Posted in: Development | VS Color Scheme

Jeff Atwood posted his own Visual Studio Color Schemes here; I have to say, the screenshots look pretty enticing, and I look forward to trying them out.

Meanwhile, After using the dark color scheme I posted last week for Visual Studio 2005 for some time now, I've been slowly doing some "improvements" to it. This one features a slightly darker background, matching tool windows correctly configured, and changes a few colors. It also uses Consolas instead of Monaco.

Here's what code looks like:

Here's what XML code looks like:

You can download my settings file from here.

Update: Download the Visual Studio 2008 version here.



Thursday, September 21, 2006 3:00:07 PM (SA Pacific Standard Time, UTC-05:00)
Cool - reminds me of the DOS days and Turbo C :-)
Friday, May 11, 2007 3:54:52 PM (SA Pacific Standard Time, UTC-05:00)
I just stumbled across this today. I like it better than my current black setup. Thanks for sharing.
Avery
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