How do i change the colours of visual studio?

Question

I started using visual studio code configurated by a friend and then i changed to visual studio 2022 (the community version).

In visual studio code the code looks prrety much like this:

Then in visual studio it looks like this:

Does anyone know how to change the highlighted or at least can give me a hint?

I tried looking in the settings on visual studio but i got confused since there are many options and i dont know exactly what to change

Answer 1

You are probably looking for the Visual Studio Theme Pack extension, which brings the default VS code themes to VS. Also see this blog post for other converted popular VS code themes, and this blog post which describes a tool to convert any VS code theme.

Regarding the colored (rainbow) braces, there is the "Rainbow Braces" extension (corresponding blog post). For further configuration, you might also want to have a look at the Visfora extension, which also includes rainbow braces.

Extensions aside, many of the colors can also be manually and individually configured in the Visual Studio's options → Environment → Fonts and Colors.