vscode-moonlight

Moonlight Glow for Visual Studio Code. A dark theme recreated from the supplied Visual Studio screenshot: charcoal editing surfaces, deep navy chrome, pale blue accents, green comments, orange strings, cyan types, and violet control flow.

This is an independent, screenshot-based interpretation, rather than an export of the original Visual Studio theme. Visual Studio and VS Code expose different UI elements, so some details differ.

Install

1. Download or build dist/vscode-moonlight-0.1.0.vsix.
2. In VS Code, run Extensions: Install from VSIX… from the Command Palette and select that file.
3. Run Preferences: Color Theme and choose Moonlight Glow.

Alternatively:

code --install-extension dist/vscode-moonlight-0.1.0.vsix

Develop and preview

Open this folder in VS Code and press F5 to launch an Extension Development Host. Select Moonlight Glow in that window, then open examples/Calculator.cs to compare C# highlighting with the reference. Semantic colors become available when the language extension supplies semantic tokens; TextMate rules also cover common languages and Markdown.

The extension contains only theme data, with no runtime code or dependencies. Edit themes/moonlight-glow-color-theme.json to adjust colors.

Build

With Python 3.9 or later and Node.js LTS (including npm):

python3 scripts/package.py

This validates theme colors and builds the VSIX using Microsoft’s official @vscode/vsce packager through npx. publisher is currently moonlight-local, a local packaging identifier. Before publishing to the Marketplace, replace it with your registered publisher ID.

Palette

Theme implementation follows the VS Code color theme guide.