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Visual Studio 2013 Color Theme Editor

Visual Studio 2013 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 2013 color palette.  This extension is supported for Visual Studio 2013 Professional and higher.  ThisChannel 9 video gives an in-depth description of how to use the extension.

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New in 2013

  • New themes based on Ethan Schoonover's Solarized color palette
  • Import and upgrade themes from Visual Studio 2012
  • Easily rename custom themes
  • Preview text color and background combinations in the theme editor before applying the theme

Features & Benefits

  • Choose from several prebuilt themes including a Light theme with a dark editor, a Dark theme with a light editor, two themes based on theSolarized 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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