Change background colour for Visual Studio

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How can we change the background colour in Visual Studio

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One line answer  F1 -  search for  Color Theme  -  select the color you like

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Jeff Atwood wrote a blog post  some years ago actually  for customizing VS code editor with custom fonts  background etc     This may point you to some interesting resources  Here s the link  http   www codinghorror com blog archives 000682 html

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You can also use the Visual Studio Theme Generator   I have only tried this with VS 2005  but the settings it generates may work with newer versions of VS as well   In case the link goes dead in the future here is a dark theme I generated   Just put this text into a file named VS 2005 dark theme vssettings and import it using Tools -  Import and Export Settings    lt UserSettings gt       lt ApplicationIdentity version  8 0   gt       lt ToolsOptions gt           lt ToolsOptionsCategory name  Environment  RegisteredName  Environment   gt       lt  ToolsOptions gt       lt Category name  Environment Group  RegisteredName  Environment Group  gt           lt Category name  Environment FontsAndColors  Category   1EDA5DD4-927A-43a7-810E-7FD247D0DA1D   Package   DA9FB551-C724-11d0-AE1F-00A0C90FFFC3   RegisteredName  Environment FontsAndColors  PackageName  Visual Studio Environment Package  gt               lt PropertyValue name  Version  gt 2 lt  PropertyValue gt               lt FontsAndColors Version  2 0  gt                   lt Categories gt                       lt Category GUID   5C48B2CB-0366-4FBF-9786-0BB37E945687   FontName  PalmOS  FontSize  8  CharSet  0  FontIsDefault  No  gt                           lt Items gt                               lt Item Name  Plain Text  Foreground  0x0000FF00  Background  0x00003700  BoldFont  No   gt                               lt Item Name  Selected Text  Foreground  0x00003700  Background  0x0000FF00  BoldFont  No   gt                               lt Item Name  Inactive Selected Text  Foreground  0x00003700  Background  0x00009100  BoldFont  No   gt                               lt Item Name  Current list location  Foreground  0x00A3DBFF  Background  0x01000007  BoldFont  No   gt                           lt  Items gt                       lt  Category gt                       lt Category GUID   9973EFDF-317D-431C-8BC1-5E88CBFD4F7F   FontName  PalmOS  FontSize  8  CharSet  0  FontIsDefault  No  gt                           lt Items gt                               lt Item Name  Plain Text  Foreground  0x0057C732  Background  0x0017340E  BoldFont  No   gt                               lt Item Name  Selected Text  Foreground  0x00003700  Background  0x0000FF00  BoldFont  No   gt                               lt Item Name  Inactive Selected Text  Foreground  0x00003700  Background  0x00009100  BoldFont  No   gt                               lt Item Name  Current list location  Foreground  0x00A3DBFF  Background  0x01000007  BoldFont  No   gt                           lt  Items gt                       lt  Category gt                       lt Category GUID   A27B4E24-A735-4D1D-B8E7-9716E1E3D8E0   FontName  Monaco  FontSize  9  CharSet  0  FontIsDefault  No  gt                           lt Items gt                               lt Item Name  Plain Text  Foreground  00CFCFCF  Background  00383838  BoldFont  No   gt                               lt Item Name  Indicator Margin  Foreground  0x02000000  Background  00383838  BoldFont  No   gt                               lt Item Name  Line Numbers  Foreground  00828282  Background  00383838  BoldFont  No   gt                               lt Item Name  Visible White Space  Foreground  0x00808080  Background  0x02000000  BoldFont  No   gt                               lt Item Name  Comment  Foreground  00828282  Background  0x02000000  BoldFont  No   gt                               lt Item Name  Compiler Error  Foreground  000000F0  Background  0x02000000  BoldFont  No   gt                               lt Item Name  CSS Comment  Foreground  00828282  Background  0x02000000  BoldFont  No   gt                               lt Item Name  CSS Keyword  Foreground  00FECE2F  Background  0x02000000  BoldFont  No   gt                               lt Item Name  CSS Property Name  Foreground  00FECE2F  Background  0x02000000  BoldFont  No   gt                               lt Item Name  CSS Property Value  Foreground  00F12FFE  Background  0x02000000  BoldFont  No   gt                               lt Item Name  CSS Selector  Foreground  00CFCFCF  Background  0x02000000  BoldFont  No   gt                               lt Item Name  CSS String Value  Foreground  0032FE2F  Background  0x02000000  BoldFont  No   gt                               lt Item Name  HTML Attribute  Foreground  00CFCFCF  Background  0x02000000  BoldFont  No   gt                               lt Item Name  HTML Attribute Value  Foreground  0032FE2F  Background  0x02000000  BoldFont  No   gt                               lt Item Name  HTML Comment  Foreground  00828282  Background  0x02000000  BoldFont  No   gt                               lt Item Name  HTML Element Name  Foreground  00FECE2F  Background  0x02000000  BoldFont  No   gt                               lt Item Name  HTML Operator  Foreground  00CFCFCF  Background  0x02000000  BoldFont  No   gt                               lt Item Name  Identifier  Foreground  00CFCFCF  Background  0x02000000  BoldFont  No   gt                               lt Item Name  Keyword  Foreground  00FECE2F  Background  0x02000000  BoldFont  No   gt                               lt Item Name  Number  Foreground  002FFE60  Background  0x02000000  BoldFont  No   gt                               lt Item Name  Operator  Foreground  00CFCFCF  Background  0x02000000  BoldFont  No   gt                               lt Item Name  Preprocessor Keyword  Foreground  00FE2F8C  Background  0x02000000  BoldFont  No   gt                               lt Item Name  Stale Code  Foreground  0x00808080  Background  0x00C0C0C0  BoldFont  No   gt                               lt Item Name  String  Foreground  0032FE2F  Background  0x02000000  BoldFont  No   gt                               lt Item Name  String  C  Verbatim   Foreground  00FE2F8C  Background  0x02000000  BoldFont  No   gt                               lt Item Name  Task List Shortcut  Foreground  0x00FFFFFF  Background  0x02C0C0C0  BoldFont  No   gt                               lt Item Name  User Keywords  Foreground  00F12FFE  Background  0x02000000  BoldFont  No   gt                               lt Item Name  User Types  Foreground  00D64EDF  Background  0x02000000  BoldFont  No   gt                               lt Item Name  Warning  Foreground  000000F0  Background  0x02000000  BoldFont  No   gt                               lt Item Name  XAML Attribute  Foreground  00CFCFCF  Background  0x02000000  BoldFont  No   gt                               lt Item Name  XAML Attribute Quotes  Foreground  0032FE2F  Background  0x02000000  BoldFont  No   gt                               lt Item Name  XAML Attribute Value  Foreground  0032FE2F  Background  0x02000000  BoldFont  No   gt                               lt Item Name  XAML Comment  Foreground  00828282  Background  0x02000000  BoldFont  No   gt                               lt Item Name  XAML Delimiter  Foreground  00CFCFCF  Background  0x02000000  BoldFont  No   gt                               lt Item Name  XAML Keyword  Foreground  00FECE2F  Background  0x02000000  BoldFont  No   gt                               lt Item Name  XAML Markup Extension Class  Foreground  00FECE2F  Background  0x02000000  BoldFont  No   gt                               lt Item Name  XAML Markup Extension Parameter Name  Foreground  00F12FFE  Background  0x02000000  BoldFont  No   gt                               lt Item Name  XAML Markup Extension Parameter Value  Foreground  00D64EDF  Background  0x02000000  BoldFont  No   gt                               lt Item Name  XAML Name  Foreground  00FECE2F  Background  0x02000000  BoldFont  No   gt                               lt Item Name  XAML Processing Instruction  Foreground  00FE2F8C  Background  0x02000000  BoldFont  No   gt                               lt Item Name  XAML Text  Foreground  00CFCFCF  Background  0x02000000  BoldFont  No   gt                                                           lt Item Name  XML   Attribute  Foreground  00CFCFCF  Background  0x02000000  BoldFont  No   gt                               lt Item Name  XML Attribute Quotes  Foreground  0032FE2F  Background  0x02000000  BoldFont  No   gt                               lt Item Name  XML Attribute Value  Foreground  0032FE2F  Background  0x02000000  BoldFont  No   gt                               lt Item Name  XML Comment  Foreground  00828282  Background  0x02000000  BoldFont  No   gt                               lt Item Name  XML Delimiter  Foreground  00CFCFCF  Background  0x02000000  BoldFont  No   gt                               lt Item Name  XML Doc Attribute  Foreground  00D64EDF  Background  0x02000000  BoldFont  No   gt                               lt Item Name  XML Doc Comment  Foreground  00828282  Background  0x02000000  BoldFont  No   gt                               lt Item Name  XML Doc Tag  Foreground  00D64EDF  Background  0x02000000  BoldFont  No   gt                               lt Item Name  XML Keyword  Foreground  00FECE2F  Background  0x02000000  BoldFont  No   gt                               lt Item Name  XML Name  Foreground  00FECE2F  Background  0x02000000  BoldFont  No   gt                               lt Item Name  XML Processing Instruction  Foreground  0x0015496C  Background  0x02000000  BoldFont  No   gt                               lt Item Name  XML Text  Foreground  00CFCFCF  Background  0x02000000  BoldFont  No   gt                               lt Item Name  XSLT Keyword  Foreground  00FECE2F  Background  0x02000000  BoldFont  No   gt                                                                                            lt  Items gt                       lt  Category gt                   lt  Categories gt               lt  FontsAndColors gt           lt  Category gt       lt  Category gt   lt  UserSettings gt

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And the correct answer is  Visual Studio 2010    From the menus   Tools -  Options --  Environment -  Fonts and Colors   Select  Plain Text    On the right of that  under  Item backgroud   hit the dropdown list   As you will see  the  default  list of colours in here are way too strong for a background  so you ll have to hit  Custom       I highly recommend a very  very pale creamy yellow colour  When you ve dragged the crosshair over the exact colour you wish  hit the hue arrow sidebar indicator on the right of the colour palette in order to view your selected colour in the  Color  indicator   If you wish to save this colour for future reference  click on a vacant white space under  Custom Colours    and hit the  Add to Custom Colors  button  Your newly selected colour will be saved here  Click OK twice   Tip  In order to overwrite any of these custom colours with a new one  make sure you click the required square so the dotted surround appears  before adding the new colour to the palette position   My work is done here

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2019  Tools -  Options --  Environment -  Fonts and Colors

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File-  Preferences-  Settings   Find workbench colorCustomizations object  change its editor background property and save  you will see the results immediately     no need to restart vs code   Or you just can copy my current config file vs code config gist

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In File- Preferences- Color Theme

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Tools --  Options --  Environment --  Fonts and Colors

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This is the only one right answer on this whole page as people answered about  Visual Studio   not  Visual Studio Code    To change color theme in  Visual Studio Code   use      File -  Preferences -  Color Theme -  select any color theme you like   You can also download other custom themes as extensions  To do that  open extensions tab on sidebar and type  theme  into the search field to filter extensions only to themes related ones  Click any you like  click  download  and then  install   After installation and restarting VSC  you can find newly installed themes next to default themes in the same place      File -  Preferences -  Color Theme -  select newly downloaded color theme   PS - Microsoft made bad naming decision by calling this new editor Visual Studio Code  it s terrible how many wrong links we have in google and stackoverflow  They should rename it to VSCode or something

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The easiest solution is to use   Visual Studio 2012 Color Theme

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Tools -  Options -  Under the Environment section there are Fonts  amp  Colors  change the Item Background

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basically same for VS2012e  TOOLS    Options    Environment    Fonts and Colors    Display Items  Plain Text     Item background  dropdown selector

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Its really simple to customize the background of Visual Studio 2013  Here is it     Tools Options Environment -  General    P S   Works in Visual Studio 2012  amp  2013

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The background color of the Visual Studio text editor in a Theme Editor is accessed by   Text Editor   Plain Text   Background

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