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  David Cuccia September 20, 2021 5:00 pm 0

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  Very nice! Thanks!

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    Grace Taylor September 21, 2021 2:02 pm 0

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    Thank you, David!

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  Praveen Potturu September 20, 2021 6:42 pm 0

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  Biggest problem with community built themes is they get outdated as soon as a new feature gets implemented and puts the IDE in a bad state visually. It’s anything being done to fix that?

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    Giordano De Franceschi September 21, 2021 8:03 am 0

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    You already know that nobody will answer this question 😀

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    Grace Taylor September 21, 2021 2:02 pm 0

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    Hi there! We’re making efforts to consolidate the VS UI so that new themes don’t have to “catch up” to new features. There have been a lot of tokens created in VS over the years, and we think that if new features can use existing elements where it makes sense, then the new themes wouldn’t get outdated, or at least need retouching less often. The Theme Converter tool is also Open Source, so anyone who is interested can feel free to request or contribute changes that they would like to see!

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  伟 彭 September 21, 2021 6:01 am 0

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  Missing transparency theme

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    Jacob McDowell September 21, 2021 7:15 am 0

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    No HotDogStand either, shame ! 😭 Guess i’ll have to try out that converter…

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      Grace Taylor September 21, 2021 2:42 pm 0

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      That theme could be fun for demos! https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=somekittens.hot-dog-stand

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        伟 彭 September 21, 2021 6:09 pm 0

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        It is too `hot`.

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    Giordano De Franceschi September 21, 2021 8:06 am 0

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    There is a Transparent Theme in this page but… it’s transparent.

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  MgSam September 21, 2021 6:14 am 0

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  Is there a classic blue VS theme? For a few years I used the color theme extension to have a green VS. These days, the default dark mode with R#’s additional syntax highlighting is fine for me.

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    Grace Taylor September 21, 2021 2:01 pm 0

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    Good question! Have you taken a look at our Visual Studio theme pack? While it doesn’t have the classic blue VS theme, it does offer a selection of blue, green, and grey toned themes that are popular classics, like Solarized and Monokai: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=idex.vsthemepack

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    John Schroedl September 22, 2021 7:03 am 0

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    Looks like Mads made one!

    https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=MadsKristensen.BlueColorTheme

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  Chuck Ryan September 22, 2021 5:01 am 0

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  Forget the colors… we need a way to include icon packs in our themes so we do not have to keep trying to adapt to whatever design fetish the current icon team members ascribe to this release, or the next, or the next…

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    Grace Taylor September 22, 2021 5:36 pm 0

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    Hi there! Thank you for sharing your input. Please feel free to create a ticket on DevCom to describe including icon packs the themes, so that the feedback can be prioritized!

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  Will Fuqua September 26, 2021 7:45 am 0

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  For these dark themes, is there a way to set the color palette of the Visual Studio integrated terminal? It appears to use a color palette built for light themes, so the text is very hard to read on a dark background. In Windows Terminal or conhost, you can set the color palette.

  See https://imgur.com/hdizObj for an example.

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    Grace Taylor September 27, 2021 3:35 pm 0

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    Hi, Will! Thanks for letting us know about this issue. The text does look hard to read on the dark background. We can look into the issue to see what’s going on. The themes have fallback colors, so at the very least, the text should be readable. Thanks for trying the custom themes!

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    Grace Taylor September 29, 2021 2:34 pm 0

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    Hi Will, we looked into this issue and it turns out that this is caused by a bug on the Visual Studio platform. We’ve filed an internal bug report so that it can get prioritized and we’re looking into a fix. Thank you for letting us know about this issue!

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      Will Fuqua September 30, 2021 10:33 pm 0

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      That’s great! Really appreciate you looking into it, thanks.

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  Stevie White (Dragnilar) September 27, 2021 3:49 pm 0

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  Aww, my Dark Green Theme didn’t make it in there.

  But in all fairness, these look like they had a lot more work put into them. 😅

  More importantly though, I’m always glad to see Microsoft put out extensions like this one. Much appreciated! 🙂

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    Grace Taylor September 27, 2021 6:16 pm 0

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    Hi, Stevie! This post outlines the launch of the new theme converter experience, so all of the themes shared here have been converted from VS Code to work in VS. We linked to all of the themes on the Marketplace and it looks like your Dark Green Theme is included for VS 2022! Thank you for creating the Dark Green Theme. The rainbow indents look really unique and could be quite useful for many folks! It’s creative and it’s great that you could get these results using the two tools.

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  Jon Miller September 28, 2021 1:12 pm 0

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  Are you ever going to add a dark theme to SQL Management Studio?

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    Joseph Palazzo September 30, 2021 12:03 pm 0

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    Try the link below.
    SSMS Dark Theme isn’t perfect but it should keep the brightness from burning your retinas on those late night code banging sessions.

    PS CommandLet to Enable Dark SSMS Theme

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  Mystery Man September 30, 2021 10:16 pm 0

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  My God, you do an amazing job, VS Team! 😘 I was wishing for such themes a couple of months ago. 😍

  If only Windows 10’s developers were like you…

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    Grace Taylor October 6, 2021 7:54 am 0

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    Thank you for your support! We appreciate it. If you’ve had a chance to give the themes a try, please feel free to share your thoughts!

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  Lachlan Picking September 30, 2021 11:03 pm 0

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  Once upon a time, you used to be able to assign different themes to different installations of VS on the same machine. I used to use it for making it more clear which version of VS I was using at a glance. I seem to remember some MSFT folks (probably Scott Hanselman or someone) doing the same thing while demoing preview builds. It bugs me that you can’t seem to do this any more. Is there some setting somewhere that can stop the theme syncing between side-by-side installations? Maybe it’s an account sync thing? If so, I don’t necessarily want to stop syncing all settings, just the theme.

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    Grace Taylor October 6, 2021 7:58 am 0

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    Hi Lachlan, thanks for bringing this up. There isn’t an official way to stop the theme from applying to different instances of VS on the same machine currently, but we’ve heard that some users have installed different custom themes on different versions of VS, and because that specific theme wasn’t installed on the other version, it didn’t share. That allows some users to differentiate VS installs by theme. We are investigating how the syncing process can become more intuitive, and whether selecting groups of settings may make sense in certain scenarios. Thanks for sharing this feedback!

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  Waitly Wang October 12, 2021 4:42 am 0

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  I feel that there are many, many dark themes; But there were so few bright themes that I had to use the default bright theme

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    Grace Taylor October 12, 2021 6:46 am 0

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    Hi Waitly, it does seem that there are many dark themes and just a few light themes. There are a couple in the Visual Studio Theme Pack. We’re also working on making it easier to create your own themes, please stay tuned!

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  Steven Maillet October 31, 2021 10:46 am 0

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  What about themes developed with the VS them designer for VS2019. Sadly that extensions wasn’t updated to VS2022 and tweaking the manifest to support VS2022 lands me with a failure:

  10/31/2021 10:37:37 AM - Microsoft VSIX Installer
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  10/31/2021 10:37:37 AM - vsixinstaller.exe version:
  10/31/2021 10:37:37 AM - 17.0.5226-preview5
  10/31/2021 10:37:37 AM - -------------------------------------------
  10/31/2021 10:37:37 AM - Command line parameters:
  10/31/2021 10:37:37 AM - C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\Installer\resources\app\ServiceHub\Services\Microsoft.VisualStudio.Setup.Service\VSIXInstaller.exe,C:\Users\[[USERNAME]]\Documents\Visual Studio 2019\Projects\[[THEME NAME]]\bin\Release\[[THEME NAME]].vsix
  10/31/2021 10:37:37 AM - -------------------------------------------
  10/31/2021 10:37:37 AM - Microsoft VSIX Installer
  10/31/2021 10:37:37 AM - -------------------------------------------
  10/31/2021 10:37:38 AM - Initializing Install...
  10/31/2021 10:37:38 AM - Extension Details...
  10/31/2021 10:37:38 AM - 	Identifier         : [[THEME NAME]]
  10/31/2021 10:37:38 AM - 	Name               : [[THEME NAME]]
  10/31/2021 10:37:38 AM - 	Author             : [[USERNAME]]
  10/31/2021 10:37:38 AM - 	Version            : 2.0
  10/31/2021 10:37:38 AM - 	Description        : [[THEME NAME]] Visual Studio Theme
  10/31/2021 10:37:38 AM - 	Locale             : en-US
  10/31/2021 10:37:38 AM - 	MoreInfoURL        : 
  10/31/2021 10:37:38 AM - 	InstalledByMSI     : False
  10/31/2021 10:37:38 AM - 	SupportedFrameworkVersionRange : [4.5,)
  10/31/2021 10:37:38 AM - 
  10/31/2021 10:37:38 AM - 	SignatureState     : Unsigned
  10/31/2021 10:37:38 AM - 	Supported Products : 
  10/31/2021 10:37:38 AM - 		Microsoft.VisualStudio.Community
  10/31/2021 10:37:38 AM - 			Version : [16.0,18.0)
  10/31/2021 10:37:38 AM - 			ProductArchitecture : notSpecified
  10/31/2021 10:37:38 AM - 
  10/31/2021 10:37:38 AM - 	References         : 
  10/31/2021 10:37:38 AM - 	Prerequisites      : 
  10/31/2021 10:37:38 AM - 		-------------------------------------------------------
  10/31/2021 10:37:38 AM - 		Identifier   : Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.CoreEditor
  10/31/2021 10:37:38 AM - 		Name         : Visual Studio core editor
  10/31/2021 10:37:38 AM - 		Version      : [16.0,18.0)
  10/31/2021 10:37:38 AM - 
  10/31/2021 10:37:38 AM - Signature Details...
  10/31/2021 10:37:38 AM - 	Extension is not signed.
  10/31/2021 10:37:38 AM - 
  10/31/2021 10:37:38 AM - Searching for applicable products...
  10/31/2021 10:37:38 AM - Found installed product - Global Location
  10/31/2021 10:37:38 AM - Found installed product - Visual Studio Community 2022 Preview
  10/31/2021 10:37:38 AM - Found installed product - Visual Studio Community 2019
  10/31/2021 10:37:38 AM - VSIXInstaller.NoApplicableSKUsException: This extension is not installable on any currently installed products.
     at VSIXInstaller.ExtensionService.GetInstallableDataImpl(IInstallableExtension extension, String extensionPackParentName, Boolean isRepairSupported, IStateData stateData, IEnumerable`1& skuData)
     at VSIXInstaller.ExtensionService.GetInstallableData(String vsixPath, String extensionPackParentName, Boolean isRepairSupported, IStateData stateData, IEnumerable`1& skuData)
     at VSIXInstaller.ExtensionPackService.IsExtensionPack(IStateData stateData, Boolean isRepairSupported)
     at VSIXInstaller.ExtensionPackService.ExpandExtensionPackToInstall(IStateData stateData, Boolean isRepairSupported)
     at VSIXInstaller.App.Initialize(Boolean isRepairSupported)
     at VSIXInstaller.App.Initialize()
     at System.Threading.Tasks.Task`1.InnerInvoke()
     at System.Threading.Tasks.Task.Execute()