Eclipse Color Theme

To go along with the other themes that I have posted here in the past based on Coding Instinct, here is a Coding Instinct theme for Eclipse Color Theme. The site also has a download in EPF format (Eclipse Preferences).

Eclipse Color Theme (XML) – for Eclipse Color Theme Plugin
Eclipse Preferences (EPF) – for Eclipse Import

Notepad2 Theme

I love Notepad2. It is the “basic” text editor that should ship in Windows. It is one of the first things I download on a new system, I replace notepad with it, then I add the context menu to open any file in notepad2. I have recently moved to a dark color theme for all my text editors and base them all off the Coding Instinct Visual Studio color scheme. Here is a settings file for Notepad2 that is based on the Coding Instinct Visual Studio color scheme.

I have changed all the supported languages in the configuration, but I have not tested them all. Some may not be 100% correct, or there may be a color that just doesn’t look right on the dark background.

To import the theme follow the following steps:

• Download the theme file
• Open Notepad2
• Press Ctrl+F12, or click View –> Customize Schemes
• Click on Import
• Select the downloaded theme file

Fixed link to the download. Seems like skydrive changed the link on me.

Issue with Visual Studio 2010 and dark color themes

I have recently moved to a dark color theme for all my code editors. It is much easier on the eyes. But I recently came across an issue that I can’t figure out how to correct and was hoping that someone will have an answer.
When the method info box pops up this is what it looks like

Now obviously this is not very useful as you can only read “void” and even that is hard to read. I either need to be able to change the background color of the popup window or the color of the text that is displayed in there.
If anyone is interested, the color theme I am using is based on “Coding Instinct” found on StudioStyles.
Here is my modified version, just has some tweaks that were not in it when I started using it, like the line numbers background was white and when you hover a collapsible block it was white, things like that.

Modified Coding Instinct

Update:

Seems this problem is caused by Visual Studio 2010 Pro Power Tools. It enables the code highlighting in the to the parameter help. Email your congressman to see if we can get a way to fix or disable this.

 

Update 2:

This can be fixed. In the Options->Environment->Fonts and Colors set Signature Help Tooltip Background to a darker color of your choice.