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Visual studio 2010 themes dark6/1/2023 Our working assumption therefore has to be that the themes in the RTM will be broadly comparable with those in the RC (i.e., light and dark). Obviously, my view just isn't "cool" enough for the Visual Studio UX team, but I digress.Īlthough a campaign to retain the existing Visual Studio 2010 theme has been running on the UserVoice site since the beta arrived (see Add some color to Visual Studio 11 and Leave VS 2010 theme (and the theme editor extension) as an option), Microsoft has not indicated what - if any - changes will be made to the Visual Studio 2012 themes at RTM. Personally, rather than develop custom theme support for each tool individually I wish they'd just add a "dark" theme to Windows instead and respect the theme settings of the operating system. Whilst the latter has an obvious appeal within the developer community (we all know devs who prefer green text on a black background), the former hasn't exactly been welcomed, to say the least. The Visual Studio 2012 Beta and RC include two themes - light (i.e. However, eye candy (and eyesores!) come and go, and within that change is a more fundamental one - direct support for themes within the Visual Studio IDE. One of the unexpected (and I would suggest from the comments, unwelcome) changes sprung on developers in the Visual Studio 2012 Beta back in February was the Metroification of the development environment.
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