Where can you get more VS2010 themes?

Question

I am not talking about the code editor. I have already imported my Visual Studio setting to change the color markup of my project files I am now wanting to change the Theme of Visual Studio to a darker theme using Theme plugin in the Visual Studio Gallery. Is there anywhere to go to get a pre-crafted dark theme, as the default ones it comes with are quite poor?

Answer 1

UPDATE:

It seems that both link are dead :( Here are the link from the way back machine :)

• Visual Studio 2010 Dark Expression Blend Color Theme
• Elite Dark

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Here are some:

Visual Studio 2010 Dark Expression Blend Color Theme:

Visual Studio 2010 Dark Expression Blend Color Theme http://www.nerdpad.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/vs2010_expression_thumb.jpg

Elite Dark:

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And just a side note:

But if you're looking color schemes (not themes), you can find it here: studiostyl.es. This is a great resource dedicated to share VS themes.

Answer 2

I don't know of any existing ones, but here is how I made my own dark theme.

1. Go to the Theme->Customize Colors menu
2. Click the highlighted new theme link and name your theme
3. Back on the main theme dialog, select all the available colors (click on one row in that table and press Ctrl-a to select all)
4. (Optional) If you want to change the color to be slightly different, click on the Colorize button (it's the right-most button on the top row)
5. Click the Modify Hue/Saturation/Lightness button (second-from-right on the top row). Move the saturation and lightness sliders to the left to get the effect you want (decreasing saturation removes color and makes everything grayer, decreasing lightness makes things darker without removing color).

I've made a few "themes" like this; a lighter/blue-er theme, a dark (gray) theme, and a dark (red) theme.

Answer 3

http://gallery.expression.microsoft.com/en-us/ is the closest we've got so far, and the only dark theme is already individually linked above. Bit of a niche opportunity ;)

Answer 4

Try http://studiostyl.es/.

There are many similar sites, but this one hosts many themes.

Answer 5

I've created a (freeware) app that lets you create VS themes quickly by letting you select lots of colours and, for example, randomize a particular channel. You can create a dark theme in a couple of mouse clicks. The zip also includes 3 themes. I've just put it for now in http://www.filedude.com/download/7g4YH3FRpQb0c76202d2.