Visual Studio Tricks

Visual Studio (2005,2008,2010) Tips and Tricks.

#31 Changing the Visual Studio Background Color

Tuesday, February 10 2009

Have you seen screen casts, or demos, or other folks using Visual Studio with a funky color scheme? Back backgrounds? Green backgrounds? Pink Backgrounds? Hey, whatever tickels your fancy, Visual Studio will come through for you.

Kidding aside, there are some pretty cool themes with dark background colors. Here is one and here is another one. This video will show you how to change your own color.

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#31 Changing the Visual Studio Background Color
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Visual Studio Tip / Trick #031 English Transcription:

Today’s Visual Studio Trick no. 31 was originally posted in text by Sara Ford in September of 2007. Today’s trick is changing the background color of the Editor. Under Tools | Options, if you select General, then Fonts and Colors, and the Plain Text item background is what dictates the editor background color. So if we change that to black, now we are black on black for the default fonts, we’ll change that to white. Click ok. You’ll see all of your font colors come forward with a black background.
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