---
title: "Dark Colored Visual Studio Color Scheme"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2008/3/16/dark-colored-visual-studio-color-scheme.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2008/3/16/dark-colored-visual-studio-color-scheme.html"
published: "2008-03-16T05:47:08"
updated: "2008-03-16T05:47:08"
tags: ["General Software Devel..."]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "Someone asked me by email if I can share my VS.NET Color scheme as shown in this video . Well, Here it is ."
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
---

# Dark Colored Visual Studio Color Scheme

By Roy Osherove March 16, 2008 In [General Software Devel...](https://osherove.com/blog/category/general-software-devel)

**Historical article** · Originally published March 16, 2008; technical details may be outdated.

Someone asked me by email if I can share my VS.NET Color scheme [as shown in this video](http://blog.typemock.com/2008/02/video-typemock-basics-2-decorators.html).  Well,  [Here it is](http://teamagile.com/Downloads/RoyDark.zip).

[![image](https://osherove.com/img/wb/eblogs.asp.net_blogs_rosherove_WindowsLiveWriter_DarkColoredVisualStudioColorScheme_C21F_image_3.png)](http://teamagile.com/Downloads/RoyDark.zip)

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## About the author

**Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

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