Thanks to Microsoft's incredible creativity in naming their products, the advent of Visual Studio Code has made it nearly impossible to search for themes specific to Visual Studio (and I don't believe they are compatible). I found Studio Styles, which is the exact kind of thing I'm looking for, but the themes on this site don't seem to be compatible with newer versions of Visual Studio. It looks like it's possible to port the themes by importing the settings, but even then I think they only theme the editor and not the rest of the application.
Searching "theme" on the VS Marketplace doesn't turn up much, and the "extra themes" extension seems to simply compile the handful of available themes so they can be downloaded all at once. This is especially frustrating to me as it only includes a few light themes, and while I understand I'm in the minority, that's what I'm in the market for.
Something like VSCodeThemes would be perfect, but I haven't found anything up to date. Or if there is a way to port VSCode themes (or another common theme format) to Visual Studio 2019, that would work as well. But I haven't found a way to do so.
Yes, there a lot of, I mean a ton of VSCode themes available for you in vscode. But I don't think there are ways here to do that with visual studio. Visual Studio Code uses the TextMate .tmTheme (.plist) format for themes.
Check this for creating themes:- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSUFoPvO2e4
An excerpt from a DevBlog:- Sometimes the default themes for Visual Studio just aren’t enough. Lucky for us, we’ve just redesigned the process of creating and importing custom themes.
One of the only ways to import themes was to download the older Color Theme Editor extension. If you were brave enough to create your own theme, you had to edit elements one by one from an unorganized list of 3,000+ vaguely named color tokens.
This summer, a group of interns has developed a newly released Color Theme Designer extension, and we’re hoping that making custom themes just got a whole lot simpler for beginner and advanced designers alike.
A new theming experience Finding and using a new theme is now as easy as downloading any other extension. Just check out the new Themes category in the Visual Studio Marketplace to download themes that other users have published.
For theme designers, the new Color Theme Designer comes with a more familiar startup workflow and a simplified design.
We’re introducing ‘Quick start,’ a feature that lets you create a custom theme in minutes by picking three base colors. For more specific customizations, the redesigned ‘Common elements’ and ‘All elements’ tabs allow you to edit all color tokens individually. The new ‘Preview’ mode lets you see edits real-time before fully saving and applying your theme. Your final product will be a Visual Studio extension that puts your theme alongside the default themes under Tools -> Options.
Let’s create a theme! 1. Set up your theme project If you’re ready to get started making your first theme (or theme pack!), download the Color Theme Designer and create a new ‘VSTheme Project’ in Visual Studio.
The new project will contain an empty .vstheme file. Opening the file will prompt you to pick a base theme.
The base theme you select will fill the theme file with color tokens that you can later customize.
In ‘Quick start,’ you select three colors which will generate a full palette of shades that set the majority of colors in the theme. A miniature preview displays how the colors will generally appear in Visual Studio.
Want to dive in deeper?:
‘Common elements’ has roughly 100 of the most commonly edited color tokens organized under five main categories. Next to each row of tokens, a snippet preview will update as you change the colors.
‘All elements’ shows every editable color token in a list that can be grouped by category or color value. Right-clicking tokens gives you the option to modify the hue, saturation, and lightness of the selection. If you can’t find a token that you are looking for, try filtering by a hex value or key words in the token name.
If you’d like to add additional theme files to your project, right-click to Add -> New Item -> VSTheme File.
Try clicking ‘Preview’ while customizing your theme to see your edits applied temporarily to the entire IDE!
Otherwise, build your theme project and locate. the .vsix file in the project’s output directory (‘bin’ folder) to install the theme extension. Use the .vsix file to share your theme with friends or publish it to the Visual Studio Marketplace!
In closing What do you think of the new Color Theme Designer? Are there any features you would like to see included in the future? Please let us know your thoughts in the comments below.
We hope you feel inspired to download the new extension and begin making your own color themes, but if not, check out the Visual Studio marketplace to download themes that other users have made!
Source:- https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/theming-in-visual-studio-just-got-a-lot-easier/