Corey Schuman » Visual Studio 2008 http://www.85turns.com Silverlight Consultant Tue, 26 Apr 2011 20:57:07 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 Visual Studio 2008 theme http://www.85turns.com/2008/03/18/visual-studio-2008-theme/ http://www.85turns.com/2008/03/18/visual-studio-2008-theme/#comments Tue, 18 Mar 2008 04:50:17 +0000 Corey http://simplesilverlight.wordpress.com/?p=34 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
JSON C# classes

Functions with values and enum highlighting
Create a rectangle code

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