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My understanding is that there are currently many ways to add new color themes in Visual Studio 2019, but none that really fits my needs:

  • The extension Color Themes for Visual Studio installs new themes to chose in the native options menu,
  • The extension Color Theme Editor for Visual Studio 2019 installs a gui to chose and install themes,
  • The marketplace that contains a category Themes but the selection is scarce compared to the VS Code themes marketplace,
  • I also stumbled upon Dainty which seems nice but a Group Policy won't let me build themes on my machine, plus I'd rather not use third party software (and install node + yarn) since Visual Studio has a native support.

So, what I am looking for is a way to easily find themes so I don't have to create or build one myself.

More specifically, I'd like to install an equivalent of the theme Winter is Coming Light found in the VS Code marketplace which I cannot use directly in Visual Studio 2019, since they use different theme formats (.vstheme is XML versus JSON for VSCode) and, by extension, any way to browse through a selection of themes as rich as the one we can find on VS Code.

Alex
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  • Update: it seems Dainty has disappeared. The website if offline and the extension is not available in the Visual Studio Market Place anymore. – Alex Jan 17 '21 at 20:53

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In VS2019 go to Extensions -> Manage Extensions -> Online -> Visual Studio Market Place -> Tools -> Themes ... and you'll have plenty to choose and it includes a link to preview called "More information".

Oh! to use the downloaded theme you should go to Tools -> Options -> Environment -> General and inside it Color Theme.

wolf354
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    I'm aware of the Market Place as a source for themes but you can only find a mere 70 themes on it, compared to the 4000 available for VS Code. – Alex Jan 17 '21 at 20:54