Visual Studio Themes

2 11 2008

I am new to Visual Studio and Dot Net Development. But I am used to a Dark Editor for Development in Netbeans. What do I do. Get a Dark theme for Visual studio. How? Below are the steps.

1. Backup existing settings

Tools > Options > Environment > Import Export Settings > Automatically save my settings to this file:

2. Download a new theme from the below link. A bigs thanks to Scott Hanselman :).

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/VisualStudioProgrammerThemesGallery.aspx
3. Apply the new setting to Visual studio

Tools > Options > Environment > Import Export Settings

4. Check the “Use Team settings file” checkbox and open the downloaded them.

Peace!