Visual Studio 2008 editor colors set to use a black background and how to add these settings yourself or keep your color settings on re-install?
So I recently installed Windows 7 64 bit on my laptop. Before I was using XP Pro SP3 32 bit. I had visual studio 2008 installed and had the editor using a black background exactly how I like it.
So really, all I wanted was my colors in my editor. So it turns out you can export them.
- On you current install, go to Tools | Import and Export Settings.
- Choose Export selected environment settings and click next.
- Click the top box to remove the check box from everything.
- Expand All Settings | Options | Environment.
- Click to check the box next to Fonts and Colors
- Click next and save your file
I won’t walk you through importing it because you should be competent enough to do that on your own having now exported it.
Want it in a download?
Visual Studio Black Theme
Want just the XML? For those of you who also want a black background and just want the XML, here is my Environment_FontsAndColors section and a screen shot of it.
Visual Studio 2008 Text Editor with black background
Here is the xml code, you can copy and paste:
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