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ccalboni
ccalboni

Reputation: 12490

Is there a way to have a dark theme for resources editor in Visual Studio?

I love dark themes in my development environments but can't find a way to make the resources editor (particularly strings) of Visual Studio dark too. My VS version is 2015 Professional.

Here's how I see it:

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while the rest of the UI looks like this:

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Upvotes: 6

Views: 1027

Answers (3)

Cool guy
Cool guy

Reputation: 371

You can use the XLM editor instead of the table view, using Open With/XML (Text) Editor With Encoding and on top of adapting to your theme, it offers extended editing features such as reordering your data or multi-caret editing, find and replace etc. Plus, you can use background images by using various extensions. resource editor in xlm editor

Upvotes: 0

Killing_Falcon
Killing_Falcon

Reputation: 196

There is an extension for the Visual Studio 2015 Enterprise that changes the theme color of every element of the IDE. Just search themes and you get a lot of extensions and 90% of them work, you can even set up some transparent background for your coding environment and even add some music(mostly trance) that changes and helps you concentrate while coding.

Upvotes: 3

Joy George Kunjikkuru
Joy George Kunjikkuru

Reputation: 1528

If you inspect the resx editor using inspect.exe tool, you can see its a Winforms data grid view. It does not honor WPF styles. According to my understanding VS is built using WPF changes the themes via WPF style feature.

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.datagridview(v=vs.110).aspx enter image description here

Upvotes: 1

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