My Visual Studio 2008/Resharper Theme
A while back, Scott Hanselman published a post on “Visual Studio Programmer Themes Gallery“. It never occurred to me the idea that maybe a darker scheme could be better for my eyes. That same afternoon, I started to play with some fonts and colors, and came up with the following scheme. This Visual Studio theme is highly inspired from John Lam’s elegant “Vibrant Ink Port” and the Resharper style is based on my own Canadian taste. Actually, if you don’t have Resharper installed, the fallback theme will be a slightly modified version of the “Vibrant Ink Port” scheme.
Click here to download this Visual Studio 2008/Resharper theme. I have only exported the “Font And Colors” options so that you can still keep your other settings. If you’re using Visual Studio 2005, edit the file with your favourite XML editor and change the ApplicationIdentity’s version to 8.0.
Figure 1. A sample of C# code’s “look and feel” with the theme.
Figure 2. A sample of XAML code’s “look and feel” with the theme.
To import the settings, follow these simple steps:
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Launch Visual Studio 2005/2008
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Go to Tools -> Import and Export Settings…
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Click on “Import selected environment settings“, then click on Next
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Backup your current settings if you want then click on Next
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Click on the Browse… button, select the vssettings file, then click on Open
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Finally, click on Finish to activate the scheme
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