June 18, 2007

Vibrant Ink Theme for Visual Studio

John Lam ported Textmate's Vibrant Ink theme to Visual Studio. Get it here.

Awesome. Note that toolbar buttons are nowhere to be seen. I noticed that while I'm only barely use toolbar, it still takes lots of space and more irritating - distracts attention like xmas tree and tends to rearrange itself I have no idea why. Besides turning toolbar off is the best way to learn keyboard shortcuts and once you do so you never look back.  While you at it, here is a nice Visual Studio .NET 2005 Keyboard Shortcuts poster from Jeff Atwood.

I'm a big fan of such kind of color themes. So far I was using Scott Hanselman's Visual Studio 2005 Font and Color Settings, but now I feel that's not eXtreme enough for me.

Btw, Windows Zune Theme is perfect match for Vibrant Ink theme. Try them out.

Update: check out also cool Moria color scheme port for Visual Studio by Tomas Restrepo (see comments).

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