PaulStovell.com Visual Studio Colour Scheme

Paul Stovell

Dec 11, 2009 — 1 min read

This is an old post and doesn't necessarily reflect my current thinking on a topic, and some links or images may not work. The text is preserved here for posterity.

I was getting bored with dark colour schemes in Visual Studio, so about a month ago I put together a colour scheme that matches PaulStovell.com. The colours my blog uses are inspired by StackOverflow, with a few small differences to make it fit with the other colours I use.

Here is how C# code looks:

C# code

Here is how XAML looks:

XAML code

And XML files:

XML code

Download the colour scheme (for Visual Studio 2008).

You can also get it from StudioStyles:

http://studiostyles.info/schemes/paulstovell-com

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