How Do I install Custom Color Themes for SSMS?
You can now install the VSColorThemes extension to SSMS. These themes allow you to control not only your text editor font colors but most of your shell colors as well. Installing gives you many new themes:
However, these themes do suffer from the same issue with the built in Dark theme with the unreadable Object Explorer right click. I have updated some of the colors in the Dark themes to make them readable. To do so I had to edit several of the font colors. The most obvious one is the File menus, and main window caption.
I have created an installer. Just download the SSMSThemeEditor repo as a zip or clone it. Then run the install.ps1 using powershell from the clone or from the unzipped folder. The installer will install the themes to every ssms you have installed.
- Download the VSColorThemes vsix from here
- Unzip the vsix to a temporary folder
- Find the path of your ssms.exe. There is an Extensions directory
- Copy the VSColorThemes folder you unzipped and all contents to the SSMS Extensions directory: Extensions\VSColorThemes**
- Overwrite the themes in Extensions\VSColorThemes\Themes** with the customized themes found here
{INSTALLLOCATION}\Microsoft SQL Server\{VERSION}\Tools\Binn\ManagementStudio\Extensions\VSColorThemes
| EULA.rtf
| extension.vsixmanifest
| ReleaseNotes.txt
| source.extension.vsixmanifest
| ThemeRegistration.pkgdef
| VsColorTheme_Icon_90x.png
\---Themes
DarkExtraContrast.pkgdef
DarkTheme.pkgdef
DarkWithLightEditor.pkgdef
Green.pkgdef
GreenShah.pkgdef
LightWithDarkEditor.pkgdef
MaterialDark.pkgdef
Purple.pkgdef
Red.pkgdef
SolarizedDark.pkgdef
SolarizedLight.pkgdef
SublimeMaterialDark.pkgdef
Tan.pkgdef
- Object Explorer
- Registered Servers
- Grid Results