Dark IDE Colors v2.0

Posted April 23, 2009 * Comments(3)

I’ve been a long time supporter to dark IDE settings. After recently spending some more time in TextMate, and seeing some presentations given in Visual Studio with a setting that more closely matches my favorite TM theme, and seeing HippoEDIT ships with the same theme, I’ve decided to tweak my current dark theme to be a little close to TM.

Here is what it currently looks like for C# code.

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Here is some XML.

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Some CSS:

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And some HTML.

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Something interesting here is that I’ve given different styles to inline HTML elements (e.g. label) vs block HTML elements (e.g. div, p). You can do this by going to Tools | Options | Text Editor | HTML | Format | Tag Specific Options…

The biggest bummer here is for ASP.Net controls you can only style the leading control prefix.

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3 Comments so far

  1. David on April 23rd, 2009

    Do you plan on releasing a copy of your setting?

  2. mark on April 23rd, 2009

    @David I should have thought of that. :) Some of my color settings in settings file will require ReSharper.

  3. mark on April 23rd, 2009

    Also keep in mind the HTML Tag settings is work in progress. It won’t have the definitive list of Inline elements just yet.

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