If you've never tried a different color scheme for Visual Studio - you are surely missing out.
Check out Thomas Restrepo's ready to go themes that were originally created for Visual Studio 2005 - but have recently been ported to Visual Studio 2008.
Ragnarok Blue is my personal favorite (although I did have to go through and drop the font size a few points - it seemed HUGE on my setup). I've been using it for several weeks now and it goes great with my black vista themed desktop.
UPDATE: 9/8/2008 - for more great themes check out Scott Hanselman's blog.
I like the Ragnarok Blue, and like you I had to drop the font size a bit too.
ReplyDeleteI love the Ragnarok Blue, and the DarkSide2. When I switched over to Ragnarok Blue though it was crazy the font size... I switched everything to font size 10... What did you guys do? I haven't explored to far into coding so I was wondering if you have encountered any problems with it overall.
ReplyDeletei dropped the font size down to 10 also.
ReplyDeletei've been using ragnarok blue for about 2 years now daily (c#, asp.net, javascript, xml, & sql) and i hope i never have to go back to a white screen. :)
remember also that Thomas made a little utility that'll port your color scheme to SQL Server Management Studio too - but he didn't set it up to do XML so if you do much SQL XML then you'll have to set it manually. other than that i haven't had any problems at all.