Is Your IDE Hot or Not?

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The white background is starting to hurt my eyes after long periods, but the black I find is also to abrasive.

Does anyone have a exported version of that color scheme, or in leiu, care to share their color schemes thwy find for a developer whic spends about 15 hours a day in Visual Studio?

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The white background is starting to hurt my eyes after long periods, but the black I find is also to abrasive.

Does anyone have a exported version of that color scheme, or in leiu, care to share their color schemes thwy find for a developer whic spends about 15 hours a day in Visual Studio?

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Here is mine … I call it calm down :slight_smile:

http://www.webdevbros.net/2009/07/29/webdevbros-visual-studio-color-theme-calm-down/

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really hard to know that.

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I think your ‘hot or not’ site for VS color/font schemes is a great idea. You know, if the server hosting the site had a lot of fonts installed (especially the ones popular with programmers), you could write a little function that uses GDI+ to return a jpeg of a ‘virtual’ screenshot, and eliminate the need for the user to create and upload one.

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http://images.jonpero.com/VS.NET_2003_Colour_Scheme.PNG

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Has anyone tried to edit XML files with “Zenburn”? yuck

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Download link above now broken. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2101423/link-for-jeffs-vs-color-theme

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We are running as a company that’s why we really need is for some enterprising coder to create a “Hot or Not” site for IDE color schemes for Used Trailers and Sarasota Real Estate

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Jeff, Thank you for the theme. I am using it for a few years now and I love it. Regards.

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Download link above now broken. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2101423/link-for-jeffs-vs-color-theme

Link in drop.io now discontinued too. Can somebody upload Jeff’s color scheme somewhere again, please?

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This link should work for a while.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8430002/exported-font-and-colors-for-jeff-atwood.vssettings

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I am working with Microsoft Access 2013 and came to conclusion that Grey Background “MS-DOS style” (Colors #F0F0F0 or “Text 2, Lighter 60%” or “Text 2, Lighter 80%”) is much more eye-friendly (for example, for sales persons spending 8 hours daily) than a white or bright background.

About Font Color: it’s #17365D (dark-blue).

Would you agree with my choice or you know better for professional users’ (like sales persons or customer service representatives) eyes combination?

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