Zuhaib

Well, I’m still struggling to change the background of solution explorer, it is white no matter how hard I try.

The only thing on my mind is changing windows 7 settings, but that way I don’t really see a point for this extension, as the background was THE ONLY thing contrasting my ink theme.

Thanks for suggestions.

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Gabriel Reply:
February 7th, 2011 at 2:30 am

@fajciarx,
AFAIK, i always just changed the windows system colors, or get a tool that lets you set the windows system colors locally on a per-app basis

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Josh Reply:
March 4th, 2011 at 11:50 am

@Gabriel, What tool would you suggest do do this?

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Santhosh Reply:
April 29th, 2011 at 3:49 pm

@Santhosh, Grt yar…

nix Reply:
August 1st, 2011 at 12:12 am

@fajciarx, Did you download the metroline.vssettings and import them (under tools>import and export settings)?

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You can change the colors of windows and code the same way you did in previous version.
Tools -> Options -> Enviornment -> Fonts and Colors

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The workflow activity’s display name and its background has similar tone (text is black and background is dark grey). I tried couple of options in the color editor and all failed to change the text’s color. Can you tell me how to do it? Thanks.

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I really like your text ide color theme. Is there a way I could get it? I’d love it! thanks.

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Zuhaib Reply:
April 21st, 2011 at 12:40 pm

@Chris Fletcher,

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Cubelodyte Reply:
July 7th, 2011 at 1:20 pm

@Chris Fletcher,
I’m lost in all this.
I imported the theme because I wanted my VS IDE to look like the image above.

Just like fajciarx, I can only get the white background. If I start changing backgounds using the Theme Editor, then the font colors don’t work. If I had time to chanage that many individual colors, I wouldn’t have needed to download and import a theme.

I can only assume I’m missing something. Shouldn’t I have been able to import this theme and start seeing the same results as depicted in the screenshot?

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Cubelodyte Reply:
July 7th, 2011 at 1:27 pm

@Cubelodyte,
It looks like the theme I got when I downloaded the “Expression” theme is the “Gray” one (based on the screenshots).

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Zuhaib Reply:
July 7th, 2011 at 2:25 pm

@Cubelodyte,
Enable Rich client visual experience in Visual Studio Options (Toools –> Options –> Environment).

Kindly let me know if that fixes ur problem.

Also if “Automatically adjust visual experience” is enabled, VS may choose not to show some colors from the theme.

I really like your theme, is it available for download?
(didn’t find a link)

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I’ve made an app that makes it much quicker to edit color themes.
Also in the zip are 3 example themes.
http://www.filedude.com/download/7g4YH3FRpQb0c76202d2

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Zuhaib,

Thanks for the follow-up. Unfortunately, changing the color of the Smart Tag from blue (the default) to anything else does nothing (instead leaving it blue).

I found a few other posts indicating that this is VS2010 bug which may or may not be fixed.

Oh well… Maybe I’ll try my hand at writing a small VS2010 extension to see if I can change it!

-JP

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How can you remove this stuff? i can set the Theme to default, but the text editor background remains black, pitch black…

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So no chance of you providing a link to your version of the color scheme? The one you linked to looks nothing at all like what you have posted in the picture. It’s actually pretty horrible.

I’m running a dark scheme myself but yours looks much easier on the eyes.

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@pachobas The problem is that is NOT what is shown in the screenshot. Metroline has some very bad color choices that look much better in the screenshot.

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hi zohaib, can you tell me what is that font in the screenshot? thanks.

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Zuhaib Reply:
December 20th, 2012 at 2:50 pm

@abubakar,

The font is Envy by Damien G http://damieng.com/creative/typography

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