How can I get Black background in Visual Studio 2010?

Question

I was going through a page and it strikes me that I want to have same color effect. I am talking about this link

As you can see: The guy is having black codebehind color. Which tool should I use from Visual Studio Gallery?

Putdown

Link is now dead and unfortunately the Wayback Machine version appears to have lost the colours. – Loco

The archived link from January 2011 seems to have some colors. – Schoolmate

Answer 1

Tools -> Options -> Environment -> Fonts and Colors

Doing it manually is a repetitive annoying job, but after you finish you can save it (with all your other settings) in Environment -> Import and Export Settings. You can find foreground recommendation over the web (e.g. from Scott Hanselman's blog), and even ready-to-import setting files like this (note that it will probably write over other settings).

In my opinion, black background was pleasant to the eye in the old CRT screens, but a bit too bright with LEDs & LCDs.

Negrito

Answer 2

http://studiostyl.es/schemes

see this coders....

Putdown

Answer 3

Rather than setting up your own colour scheme I'd suggest using a vssettings file that someone has already made and shared on the web.

I use metroline.

http://winterdom.com/2010/04/metroline-a-vs2010-color-scheme

Try this and see what you think.

I love it for C# and css/html but find it a bit ugly for xslt.

Kielty

+1 for preceding my update in 3 min. Welcome to StackOverfllow :) – Negrito

Link has changed: winterdom.com/vs%20color%20scheme/2010/04/14/… – Mastership

Answer 4

If you want to work in the dark (less distraction) and white backgrounds are stressing your eyes, I suggest to make everything black. Thats at least possible with the Windows 8 Magnifier Tool. Click on "Options" and check "Invert Colors".

Whitesell