Thursday, May 22, 2008 1:43 PM
Mohamed Meligy
Dark Visual Studio W/ Resharper - My VS Settings (Colors, Windows Layout, ...) - V2
I blogged my old Visual Studio settings before for Visual Studio 2005, using a dark color theme and optimizing it for Resharper features like Resharper colorings and "Current Line Highlight".
Today I'm sharing with you my settings for VS 2008. Things have changed a bit since the first time, so, you'll find the layout different and colors as well, although still dark as well.
The one thing to notice is using "Lucida Console" font instead of the popular "Consolas". Also, if things look a bit small to you, this is because I'm using "Lucida Console" with size 9, and my entire Windows OS layout is using "Arial Unicode MS" font with size "7". It's killing for someone with sight shortage, but you never get enough of a 15 inch laptop screen, even if wide one!
By the way, the version of Resharper used with VS 2008 is the latest of the nightly builds of Resharper 4. The best thing I like about it besides supporting C# 3.0 of course is the performance improvements. Now "Solution Wide Analysis" is off by default and I still get most of the features I need of Resharper. Maybe This is the reason for the massive performance increase or whatever the reason, it's just nice.
You can download my settings right here:
VS_Dark_Colors-W-Resharper-20080522.vssettings
By the way, if you are interested in how my old VS settings looked like, check this:
Filed under: Visual Studio, VS Themes, Resharper, Orcas