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Visual Studio 2015 Color Theme Editor

Visual Studio 2015 Color Theme Editor

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Allows users to create and edit Visual Studio themes. Themes can customize colors used for menus, toolbars, tabs, titlebars, the text editor, and other environment colors.
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Allows users to customize the Visual Studio 2015 color palette. This extension is supported for Visual Studio 2015 Community and higher. ThisChannel 9 video gives an in-depth description of how to use the extension.

NOTE: 

This version is signed in a manner which is not supported by the RC version of Visual Studio 2015. It will only install on the RTM version. You can download the RTM version of Visual Studio 2015 here.

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Features & Benefits


  • Import and upgrade themes from Visual Studio 2013
  • Easily rename custom themes
  • Preview text color and background combinations in the theme editor before applying the theme
  • Choose from several prebuilt themes including a Light theme with a dark editor, a Dark theme with a light editor, two themes based on Ethan Schoonover's Solarized color palette, and four additional colored themes (Red, Green, Tan, Purple)
  • Ability to copy/paste, undo/redo, and multi-select editcolor values
  • A new and improved color picker to easily change your theme’s colors
  • More Visual Studio UI that can be modified including most tool window backgrounds and selection colors
  • Customize your editor colors from the theme editor UI 
  • Copy colors from existing themes to easily create variations on the prebuilt themes
  • Import and export themes to share themes across multiple machines or with friends
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