Visual Studio Extension that installs additional color themes

Fresh VS 2017 install with the Color themes extension installed. When you go to Tools at the top, and then Color Themes, Visual Studio crashes and then restarts. Happens each time, whether you're on the Start page or a solution is open.

I have tried to install this extension by using the .VSIX and also from the extensions menu in Visual Studio 2019. In all cases the installation fails with the following exception:

This extension cannot be installed because the following references are missing:

• Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.CoreEditor

Surprisingly, the full-fledged Color Theme Editor extension installs with no issues.

Attached to this issue is the log from the last failed installation.

dd_VSIXInstaller_20190404131539_2d50.log

• I renamed the theme to Material Dark
• Many UI elements and text editor colors now actually use colors from the Material palette as of Google's own specifications
• Doesn't look horrible like the last version

I have install this plugin from within Visual Studio. When I installed the extension I did not see any obvious new menu entries (though there are many things in the menu so I might have missed it) and I also could not find anything new in the options page (again, hard to know if I missed it). The "more information" link in the "Extensions and Updates" window took me to this github page. However, the readme file in this repo only tells me how to contribute to the project but says nothing about how to actually use this extension.

It would be very nice if there were some instructions.

Hi,

I've taken the OneDarkVariant created by @DividedByCero in https://github.com/microsoft/VS-ColorThemes/pull/60 and made the requested changes. All credit goes to original author here, I just really like this theme so wanted to make sure it makes it into master.

Thanks!

I'm sure it's a great extension but given it's age and not having a single instruction seems a little out of place. All I really need to know is where to find it.

I am trying to import this theme but since it is an xml I am unsure what to do... I just renamed the file to a .vstheme and imported it... however it does not change the look, what I am looking forward to is something similar to this, I am amazed nobody has done it for VS IDE https://github.com/equinusocio/material-theme

• The command bar menus are now more consistent with borders.
• Razor markup now has consistent background color
• Server side markup now has same blue color as strings

Changes:

• CommandBarButton: OLD

NEW

• DropDown OLD

NEW

• Razor Markup OLD

NEW

I am using a custom theme. Rather frequently I will restart VS 15.6 and the theme gets reset. When I go to switch it back the theme is gone. I import the theme again. Because of another issue the theme doesn't show up and you have to restart VS. The theme is then applied correctly.

Some things that may be cause it to lose the theme.

1. I uninstall and/or install an extension in VS. Doesn't matter what that extension is.
2. Starting multiple instances of VS. Note that would all use the same theme but that doesn't seem to matter.
3. Using different instances of VS 2017 (I have both 15.5.4 and 15.6 preview installed.

I cannot really identify the trigger state but it happens several times a week (and sometimes a day).

When I want to import any theme in Visual studio 2017, I get an XmlException error:

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Microsoft Visual Studio

Unexpected error while importing theme: System.Xml.XmlException: For security reasons DTD is prohibited in this XML document. To enable DTD processing set the DtdProcessing property on XmlReaderSettings to Parse and pass the settings into XmlReader.Create method.

at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.Throw(Exception e) at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.ThrowWithoutLineInfo(String res) at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.ParseDoctypeDecl() at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.ParseDocumentContent() at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.Read() at System.Xml.XsdValidatingReader.Read() at System.Xml.XmlLoader.LoadNode(Boolean skipOverWhitespace) at System.Xml.XmlLoader.LoadDocSequence(XmlDocument parentDoc) at System.Xml.XmlLoader.Load(XmlDocument doc, XmlReader reader, Boolean preserveWhitespace) at System.Xml.XmlDocument.Load(XmlReader reader) at Microsoft.VisualStudio.Themes.Data.RegistryThemeIO.ReadThemeTemplatesFromXmlStream(Stream stream) at Microsoft.VisualStudio.Themes.Designer.CommandHandlers.ImportTheme(ColorManager manager)

The odd thing is that this happens as well with Visual Studio 2015 and any VS2015 theme, even themes I once have been able to import without any problems.

Do you have any idea/clue on what's wrong?

Any hints are highly appreciated.

Cheers Daniel

I followed @prnadago steps to generate XML file from the VS Theme. This should hopefully fix the razor syntax highlighting as demonstrated here.

Fixes #6

My custom theme used to work just fine with the NuGet Package Manager Window - but for some reason my custom theme seems to not work entirely for it anymore - see below: https://www.screencast.com/t/uaHV17E75

How do I affect the background of this window? I would like it to be dark so that the text will show up nicely.

Looks like the startup dialog (which most of us turn off...) has a white background instead of the correct Solarized one.

This also applies to "File | New | Project..." and "File | New | Repository...":

Several issues:

• Text on "Find in Files" and "Replace in Files" is black on dark background
• Text in boxes is mostly light gray on white
• On hover/focus, the text in the search box becomes unreadable. In this screenshot there's "abcdef" with "def" selected and "abc" completely unreadable. The selected text is not that readable in itself.

I can take a swing at a fix if you could let me know what elements should I be looking for in the theme editor.

Microsoft Visual Studio Community 2019
Version 16.11.0
VisualStudio.16.Release/16.11.0+31605.320
Microsoft .NET Framework
Version 4.8.04084
Color Themes for Visual Studio 1.0.11

Hello,

I'm using the One Dark Variant theme, on the publish tab after updating visual studio 2019 to version 16.10.4, this tab turned white with white fonts making it impossible to read.

Thanks.