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How to do it...
- Go to Tools | Extensions and Updates....
- From the dialog that appears, choose Online in the panel on the left-hand side. Start typing Theme Editor into the search box on the right. The Color Theme Editor for Visual Studio option will pop up in your search results:
- Click the small Download button in the top right-hand corner of the entry. Click through the installation dialog prompts, allowing the plugin to install. You'll then notice on the bottom of the window that it is scheduled for installation but will wait until Visual Studio is closed.
- Close the window and Visual Studio, saving our project. After our program has closed, the VSIX Installer window will come up to confirm that you want to install the software. Click on the Modify button and it should start:
Alternatively, visit https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=VisualStudioPlatformTeam.VisualStudio2017ColorThemeEditor and download/install the extension by double-clicking the .vsix file that comes from your browser.
- Once it has finished installing, open up Visual Studio again and open our project. One of the quickest ways to do so is from the Recent section on the Start Page:
- After restarting, go to Tools | Customize Colors to open the Color Themes editor page:
The Color Themes editor page
- From the Color Themes dialog that appears, click on the little palette-shaped icon on the upper-right corner of the theme that you want to use as your base or starting theme (I've clicked on the palette for the Light theme here, as you can see in the following screenshot):
- A copy of the theme will appear in the Custom Themes section in the lower part of the Color Themes window. Click on Edit Theme to modify the theme that is the middle button that appears when you hover over the custom theme. When you are editing the theme, you can change everything from the font text color to the C++ keyword color.
- The main area you are interested in is the C++ Text Editor section. To gain access to all the C++ Text Editor options, be sure to select the Show All Elements option at the top of the Theme Editor window, as shown in the following screenshot:
Be sure to select the Show All Elements option in the Theme Editor window to show text editor settings specific to C++. Otherwise, you'll be left with only Chrome/GUI-type modifications being possible.
- Note that, while most of the settings you are interested in will be under Text Editor | C/C++, some will not have the C++ subheading. For example, the setting for the main/plain text inside the editor window (for all languages) is under Text Editor | Plain Text (without the C++ subheading).
- Select the theme to use from Tools | Options | Environment | General. Any new themes you have created will appear automatically in the drop-down menu.