Visual Studio 2012 – My first encounter with the Dark and Light Matter

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I just downloaded Visual Studio 2012 Ultimate from my MSDN Subscription. After 2 system restarts (yes, the installer will ask you to restart twice), I was surprised to see a very bright purple-grayish IDE.

Despite of all the cool features that it offers like Code Analyzer, Performance Diagnostic, integration with Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) tools, and the faster connection with TFS, I am disappointed that MS guys decided to change the theme just to suit their “Metro” look-and-feel.

To be honest, I love the VS 2010 color hues. It’s just so sad that I have to use this flat bright color.

But hey, Microsoft is not stupid! They should have allowed the users to change the colors to personalize their IDE!.

So I eagerly checked the settings and I know it should be located at TOOLS > OPTIONS menu. Sorry, I’m not shouting. It’s just that the Visual Studio 20120 menus are in CAPITAL letters.



I found the option to change the Color Theme under the Environment > General of the TOOLS > OPTIONS menu. Unfortunately, you are only given with 2 options: either you choose the Light -- which is too bright for me, or the Dark -- which is a very dark gray.



I played around with it, did some coding, run some tests, and after 30 minutes of using it, my eyes felt a bit tired and seemed like i have a temporary color blindness.

I just hope, Microsoft reads this and do a patch to allow users to use VS 2010 theme in their VS 2012.

Other than that, I will still say Microsoft really did a good job.

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