Visual Studio 2013 Color Theme Editor

Allows users to create and edit Visual Studio themes. Themes can customize colors used for menus, toolbars, tabs, titlebars, the text editor, and other environment colors.


Allows users to customize the Visual Studio 2013 color palette.  This extension is supported for Visual Studio 2013 Professional and higher.  This Channal 9 video gives an in-depth description of how to use the extension. (See video below)




New in 2013

• New themes based on Ethan Schoonover's Solarized color palette
  
  
• Import and upgrade themes from Visual Studio 2012
  
  
• Easily rename custom themes
  
  
• Preview text color and background combinations in the theme editor before applying the theme
  
  

Features & Benefits

• Choose from several prebuilt themes including a Light theme with a dark editor, a Dark theme with a light editor, two themes based on theSolarized color palette, and four additional colored themes (Red, Green, Tan, Purple)
  
• Ability to copy/paste, undo/redo, and multi-select editcolor values
  
• A new and improved color picker to easily change your theme’s colors
  
• More Visual Studio UI that can be modified including most tool window backgrounds and selection colors
  
• Customize your editor colors from the theme editor UI 
  
• Copy colors from existing themes to easily create variations on the prebuilt themes
  
• Import and export themes to share themes across multiple machines or with friends 
  
  

How to use

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Change IDE Fonts

You can change the font and text size for all windows and dialog boxes in the IDE. You can choose to customize only certain windows and other text elements.

To change the font and size of all text in the IDE

1. On the menu bar, choose Tools, Options.
   
2. In the options list, choose Environment, Fonts and Colors.
   
3. In the Show settings for list, choose Environment Font.
   [th] Tip[/th]

   If you want to change the font for tool windows only, in the Show settings for list, choose [All Text Tool Windows].

   
   
4. In the Font list, choose a font.
   
5. In the Size list, choose a text size, and then choose the OK button.
   

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1. Open: Tool\Customize Colors
2. Created a copy of theme\Edit theme
3. Show All Elements
4. Type: "text editor"

There are 7 elements to change color (All languages)
1. Text Editor Comment Foreground
2. Text Editor String Foreground
3. Text Editor Keyword Foreground
4. Text Editor Line Number Foreground
5. Literal
6. Number
7. Operator

There are 4 elements to change color on C++
1. C++ Function
2. C++ Function Templates
3. C++ Namespaces
4. C++ Variables