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Short: My Visual Studio Color Settings

Posted 2006-11-30 02:53 PM in Tools.

Here's my freshly exported and slightly tweaked Visual Studio 2005 color settings per popular demand. I'm mixing Consolas and Inconsolata fonts. More font discussion and comparison shots on DamienG's site. Be sure to click the image, as he's highlighted what he thinks are the problems with rendering in each of the font samples. He also posts his tweaked InconsolataDG with a slashed zero while he waits for Raph Levien's revised version.

Scott Hanselman's Visual Studio 2005 Font and Color Settings

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Thursday, November 30, 2006 5:12:12 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)
Are you running out of things to write about?

Todd
Todd
Thursday, November 30, 2006 7:40:57 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)
Could you post a screen shot of how it looks?
LaptopHeaven
Friday, December 01, 2006 7:03:21 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)
Scott,
How about a screen shot? Thanks. :)
Donn
Friday, December 01, 2006 7:20:58 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)
I'm curious how you would apply this to your vs2005 to look at it? Additionally how do you export your custom settings
so they can be preserved? I'm somewhat new to VS2005. I know in VS2003 you could do it through the registry.

Thanks!
Kevin Scharnhorst
Friday, December 01, 2006 11:39:56 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)
Thanks for that Scott.
I requested this after looking at the previous post http://www.hanselman.com/blog/CommentView.aspx?guid=8781D481-DD8E-4501-A86D-069686E025E7

There are screen shots here. To import it over your own settings (vs2005): -
Tools -> Import Export Settings -> Choose Import Selected Environment settings
Save your settings just in case. Browse to where you extracted the zip to.

I have attempted to apply the same style to vs2003 with moderate success. I have saved the styles using VSStyler found at
http://www.gotdotnet.com/workspaces/workspace.aspx?id=722d7817-b935-4faf-9bf7-fe3e84d463af

My attempt at replicating Scott's style in vs2003 can be found at
http://www.aidenweb.co.uk/visualstudiostyle/hanselmanstyle.zip
Monday, December 04, 2006 9:48:37 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)
I love it. You zip a 10kb file down to 2kb!!!
Thanks for saving me the bandwidth!!
You are very considerate!!!

:()
John A. Davis
Monday, December 04, 2006 9:57:05 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)
just downloaded and imported your settings!!!
whoa!!
Have you been taking LSD?
Guess I'll try anything once.


Thanks for being Scott Hanselman.
John A. Davis
Wednesday, December 06, 2006 8:18:35 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)
I've been using these for the last three days. I love 'em! I've always just used the default settings. I've been really surprised out how these have improved my productivity. I run at a resolution of 1600 X 1200 on a 19in monitor and these settings make a huge difference. Thanks!
Rip Ryness
Wednesday, December 06, 2006 11:11:06 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)
I like these settings a lot. It's much easier to see the text, no matter if you are in a room with lots of glare or not.

One thing drives me nuts: on the normal text background, I can't see the mouse move. The mouse cursor becomes a black bar | shape and disappears. I can't find a way to change the mouse cursor setting in Visual Studio options.

Scott, you must use the keyboard to navigate and cut/copy/paste text instead of the mouse.
Sunday, January 28, 2007 11:39:05 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)
Looks great! Thanks. I am also concerned about the black bar cursor on the dark background. Is there anyway to make the cursor white in VS?

Thanks.
Bubba McRantz
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