So upon reading Scott Hanslemans blog, one of my favorite blog contributors for .NET and technology alike, I noticed he is trying out some "dark" settings in Visual Studio.  Now let me say I have had some serious issues at work where I would get into a zone and be staring at the screen non-stop for 5-8 hours non-stop only to get up and realize my eyes are burning like crazy.  So last week I changed my Visual Studio settings at work.  Today I switched my home computers over to the darkside after enjoying it quit a bit at work.  Other than the occasional comment from my fellow employee wondering what the hell I got going on with my Visual Studio, its a pretty enjoyable experience. 

So posted below is an example image capture of my settings, along with the Visual Studio 2005 settings application.  Note that I am using the Consolas font from Microsoft which only looks good on ClearType enabled systems.  If you have Visual Studio 2005 I would highly recommend that font, I use it in Visual Studio 2003, just copy the fonts from your font directory once you install it and you can pretty much use them anywhere!  I keep them on a handy USB thumb drive. :)

ElucidWeb-TheDarkside.vssettings.xml (39.04 KB) (Fixed problem with first upload)

I went through every single setting tediously and made sure everything looked proper, if I missed something that looks a bit off shoot me a comment or email your settings file and I will try it out.  Enjoy!!

Eric