Visual Studio Black Background?

I watch a lot of tutorials on the web, expesially ASP.NET tutorials - And constantly notice that everyone seems to have VS set with a black background and yellow/white text?

Why is this? and how can I set up my version to look like it?

Thanks

11 Answers

It is Rob Conery's TextMate theme that you want.

After Download in Studio ... Tools > Import & export settings and follow the wizard.

Share and enjoy!

Edit: Link updated

For VS2012 : if you want to simply change the default black and white background then ; Go to Tools ->Options -> Environment -> General. Right side pan, you you will see Color theme drop down;select Dark or light in order to get basic black and white background.

if you want to change default color,Font or Font size then you select ; Tools ->Options -> Environment -> Fonts and Colors

Now, Visual Studio 2012 supports black theme. To change to black theme :

Tools -> Options -> Visual Experience -> Color theme

Check out shanselmans blog article about this, he lists quite a few of them, so pick one you like. Personally, I've got the Monaco font installed, and I love it!

In Visual Studio 2017 you can do the following:

Tools -> Options.. -> Environment -> General -> Color theme -> Dark -> OK

you can do this by taking visual studio tools - > options - > font and colors and set what ever you want in font and text.

If you want some background image means : try this tool

I personally find it easier to read, and the colors can have more subtle hues and convey more meaning for me.

I used this scheme to start with:

Go to VS -> Tools -> Options. It has list of settings you can change. For changing color; look left side pane and select Fonts and color. You also can change default Item foreground and item background color as your wish from right side pane.

In VS 2015, go to tools>>options>>environment>>general>>dark That's the theme I see most people use, and it feels much better on the eyes.

Select : Tools > Options > General > Color Theme > Dark

You can also change the font by selecting :

Select : Tools > Options > General > Fonts and Colors > ...

For me:

Tools > Options > Environment > Color theme(from dropdown select): > Blue