When I first cranked up Visual Studio 2012 a month ago I really liked the responsiveness, the new features and the overall improved development environment.
Recently I noticed something. I wasn't getting work done and I know why. The Visusal Studio 2012 color scheme was blowing my eyes out after 3-4 hours. I noticed I could only work in short increments, not all day and this was because I simply couldn't focus after a certain amount of time.
I'm not getting old, I'm aware that Visual Studio ships with a light and dark color option, I have no problem on a second machine with Visual Studio 2010.
How about this cool minty green?
The closest visual studio color scheme I found to match vs2010 was in the theme pack as blue. Thanks goodness.
Where to get the new vs2012 themes? Head over here http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/366ad100-0003-4c9a-81a8-337d4e7ace05 download and run. Visual Studio should start it up and it will now be in a tab to make the initial color scheme choice.
Recently I noticed something. I wasn't getting work done and I know why. The Visusal Studio 2012 color scheme was blowing my eyes out after 3-4 hours. I noticed I could only work in short increments, not all day and this was because I simply couldn't focus after a certain amount of time.
I'm not getting old, I'm aware that Visual Studio ships with a light and dark color option, I have no problem on a second machine with Visual Studio 2010.
It's the shitty Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 UI that is the problem.
I found I was not the only one enduring pain after seeing that someone submitted a bug report to the MS guys titled "VS2012 UI is unusable"
WTF is this? No wonder I was getting headaches.
I'm not a writer and not a blogger but needed to post this so anyone that has fallen victim to the "Metro Era " has some relief.
You can change the Visual Studio 2012 color scheme. Woohoo!
If spearmint is not your thing you're in luck, there are several easy to use themes to choose from.
Where to get the new vs2012 themes? Head over here http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/366ad100-0003-4c9a-81a8-337d4e7ace05 download and run. Visual Studio should start it up and it will now be in a tab to make the initial color scheme choice.
