Dark colour schemes remain very popular in the developer arena, however, there are many developers who prefer light colour schemes. Here is a collection of both, and also a few low contract options which are in between light and dark.
Simply download a setting file and install it using the guide below.
How To Install Themes for Visual Studio
- Start Visual Studio
- Go to Tools -> Import and Export Settings... -> Import selected environment settings
- [Choose whether you want to backup existing settings]
- Click Browse and select the .vssettings file
- Click Finish
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Now to download Visual Studio colour schemes...
Besides, generating a new theme with Yeoman Generator needs.tmTheme file of another theme - there's no Visual Studio dark theme on the ColorSublime website and I don't have access to the 'locked one' from VSC.
Visual Studio for Mac This theme is compatible with the new Visual Studio for Mac. You just have to import ' Visual Gruvbox Medium Dark.tmTheme ' ( Look at this documentation to 'export' the theme from this extension ). Visual Studio for Mac – Light Theme New welcome screen of the Visual Studio for Mac (which we have just launched). See the dark theme of the same thing. See the dark theme. But my question is: what is better for the eyes, a dark color theme or a Stack Exchange Network Stack Exchange network consists of 174 Q&A communities including Stack Overflow, the largest, most trusted online community for developers to learn, share their knowledge, and build their careers. The Visual Studio 2012 Dark theme ported to NetBeans. Hello, thanks for the theme, I use Visual Studio 2012, so I think I’ll love the theme. But, how do i install the theme. I’m new to netbeans. The “add plugins” window seems to be looking for a (*.nbm) file.
Son of Obsidian
Extension for Visual Studio Code - One Dark Theme based on Atom. Dark theme Office 2019 for mac I recently bought the standalone consumer edition of Office 2019 for mac and I was wondering how to activate the dark theme in Word. Is this feature even available in the standalone edition, or is a Office365 feature?
Son of Obsidian is a theme based on the classic TextMate theme Obsidian.
son-of-obsidian_vs2015.zip (1.52 kB)WekeRoad Ink
WekeRoad Ink is based on the Vibrant Ink theme for TextMate, with a few additional settings to take advantage the expanded syntax settings in VS2010.
wekeroad-ink_vs2015.zip (1.6 kB)Selenitic
Selenitic theme was born out of a desire for a muted, eye-friendly scheme for all-day coding. Its title, 'Selenitic', comes from an age in the computer game Myst, also home to many subdued, relaxing colours.
selenitic_vs2015.zip (1.37 kB)Solarized Dark
Solarized Dark is a set of Visual Studio colour schemes based on the original Solarized theme for vim. This theme comes in light and dark versions (dark shown).
solarized.zip (6.03 kB)Coda
Coda is a Visual Studio colour scheme based on the Coda text editor for the Mac (specifically based on the JSP-HTML language elements)
coda_vs2015.zip (1.41 kB)Bootstrap
Bootstrap is a Visual Studio colour theme based on the Twitter Bootstrap colour palette.
bootstrap_vs2015.zip (1.46 kB)IR Black
IR Black is a port of the famous IR_Black TextMate theme.
ir-black_vs2015.zip (1.43 kB)Brackets + Miku
Brackets + Miku is a subtle dark theme with bright colours and is easy on the eye.
brackets-miku_vs2015.zip (1.57 kB)VS Code Monokai Like
Monokai Like is a colour scheme designed with beautiful functionality in mind. Carefully selected shades of colours are the foundation of an uncompromising, non-distractive user interface.
vs-code-monokai-like_vs2015.zip (1.62 kB)Delphi
Delphi theme for Visual Studio is based on the original Borland Delphi colour scheme.
delphi_vs2015.zip (1.42 kB)
I like the look of Sublime Text 2 but I prefer using Notepad++ as my default text editor. Is there a way to make the notepad++ application itself dark? More specifically, I would like to change the region highlighted in red to a dark background with a light grey text.
I am on Win 8 (x64).
Thanks in advance!
BustedSantaBustedSanta3 Answers
The themes, as you guessed, can't do this (they only handle what's in the text editing window). To change the colors you'll have to change color values in the source code (download from the site or GitHub).
- Extract the file
- Find the elements whose color you'd like to change, and change them. All colors I've seen are denoted RGB(xx,xx,xx)
- Rebuild (see /readmeFirst.txt once you've extracted)
I've just glanced at these files, but I'm definitely going to work at this a little tomorrow and I don't mind giving you my results once I've solved it.
Anyway, what I've seen at a glance is that you'll want to look in
- /PowerEditor/src/ScitillaComponent/DocTabView (I think)
- /PowerEditor/src/WinControls/TabBar
- /PowerEditor/src/WinControls/ToolBar
That's all I noticed that might be of interest so far, but again, I'll look at it more tomorrow and get back to you.
Edit: the official makefile will give some errors, because /PowerEditor/src/Parameters.h references files incorrectly. Here are the two I fixed so far:
Change those lines in Parameters.h to what I've written to deal with them. Don't worry about the warnings ('extra tokens after #endif') - they're just comments.
Edit 2: I'm using VS2012, in which the build process results in numerous errors. I won't post them here unless someone eventually asks about them, in which case I'm happy to do so. I should have a working build up soon!
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Edit 3: It seems Notepad++'s provided VS project file was created with an earlier version of Visual Studio, and in updating the files, Visual Studio 2012 creates many problems, so if you go that route, use VS2010.
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Edit 4: I didn't make it obvious in Edit 3, but I gave up after realizing just how difficult it was going to be to get around the VS errors. I imagine the code has changed significantly since I wrote this answer as well; unfortunately I didn't note the version, but I'm sure it was the latest available at time of writing this answer, which, according to 'All versions', was probably either 6.4.1 or 6.4.2. However, I hope this is a useful starting point for anyone else who reads (this answer has received consistent attention since writing).
Use WindowBlinds from Stardock . It supports global skinning for all apps in Windows but I believe you can also give it special instructions for skinning individual apps.
You can press alt+shift+print screen and it will change all colors of windows to dark including Notepad++.
You can change the tab colors in notepad++ and it changes the tab writing and the tab background and perhaps the window I don't know.
I have written a Notepad++ dark theme generator here with 700 ready made high contrast Notepad++ themes to download:
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