When I upgraded to Visual Studio 2008 I stumbled on Jon Galloway’s post about
Ten Tips for a Happy Upgrade to Visual Studio 2008 (Release). The best, very best, tip was changing the theme. The new theme I’m using has a dark gray background. At at first this was a novelty and it was making me feel all 1337 while coding. So I gave this new theme 1 week. A week pasted and, to be honest, I was too lazy to change it back. A week turned into a couple months, and before I knew it I am addicted. It hit the other day when I was helping someone out. The blazing white that I was so use to, almost gave me a headache.
There are the comments that come my way like “Do you really work like that?” or “How can you work like that?”. It is honestly easier on my eyes and I can tolerate sitting in front of the screen longer (don’t tell management). Really the only complaint I have is I miss the XML highlighting.
Give it a shot, download the theme.
Sample of code in the theme:
Class highlighting
Functions with values and enum highlighting
March 18th, 2008 at 2:00 pm
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March 19th, 2008 at 2:56 pm
That looks like a pretty nice theme — I made one w/ a very dark grey background (but a little higher contrast for some of the other elements) but I tried to include the XML highlighting — perhaps you could merge the two themes?
http://www.frickinsweet.com/ryanlanciaux.com/post/Best-VS-Fonts–Colors-EVER.aspx
March 20th, 2008 at 2:47 am
You may better give credit to the original author of the theme you are using. In case you don’t know who the original author is, check out
http://blog.wekeroad.com/2007/10/17/textmate-theme-for-visual-studio-take-2/
March 20th, 2008 at 7:43 am
I certainly didn’t mean to leave out the original author, Rob Conery. This theme has changed my working life. Thanks for posting the link.
September 22nd, 2008 at 4:51 pm
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January 17th, 2009 at 8:39 pm
Give me a break it is only a theme or are we gong to start copyrighting themes now too. If that is the case I will copyright using all of my fonts at a size of 10px so you cannot use any font at that size and the color white.
March 8th, 2009 at 4:24 pm
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May 6th, 2009 at 9:57 pm
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October 26th, 2009 at 3:35 am
Download link no longer works.. can you fix it?
October 26th, 2009 at 5:10 pm
As G mentioned… the link no longer works. Does anyone have this file and could share it?? I’d really like to give it a try– looks promising.Devin