Tired of running a dark theme in visual studio, only to be blinded when you switch to SSMS? Me too.

I very much enjoy this dark theme in Visual Studio 2008. That being said, I almost cry everytime I have to switch back and forth between Visual Studio and Management Studio.

Luckily, I ran across this post: http://winterdom.com/weblog/2007/10/31/ColorSchemesInSQL2005ManagementStudio.aspx

I won’t steal this man’s work as it’s quite genius. Just an extra note. His settings were for Visual Studio 2005, so be sure to change “..VisualStudio\8.0\FontAnd…” to “..VisualStudio\9.0\FontAnd…” so that you copy the current settings from Visual Studio 2008 if that is what you are using.

My eyes are grateful for this one!

[Update]

I guess I should mention this works for any theme really, not just dark themes!