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Rickard Nilsson is a software architect, developer, craftsman, agile enthusiast, and father of three... More

Rickard blogs about crafting software using .NET tooling and solid, development practices.

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Recent comments

My customized Son of Obsidian Visual Studio color scheme for ReSharper

Sunday, 20 May 2012 20:41 by Rickard Nilsson

Update! Download for Visual Studio 2012 and ReSharper 7!

Since I switched to the dark side I’ve made several tweeks and customizations to the Son of Obsidian scheme. I’m a heavy ReSharper user (i.e. addict) and ReSharper on its own extends and overrides some of the the highlighting and what not in Visual Studio, hence the original scheme looks a bit broken when turning on all the ReSharper features.

I’ve finally decided that is was time to publish my changes so if you’re into Son of Obsidian and ReSharper, this is for you:

son-of-obsidian

 
Download Son Of Obsidian scheme for Visual Studio 2012 (NEW!)
Download Son Of Obsidian scheme for Visual Studio 2010

Enable enhanced syntax highlighting

To enable the enhanced syntax highlighting and color identifiers in ReSharper, go to the Options dialog and check both Color identifiers and Highlight color usages.

rsharper_settings

 

See how to change Visual Studio color scheme

Tags:   visual studio, resharper, vs2010, styles, theme, dark side
Categories:   Software development
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.NET Development with Visual Studio on MacBook Pro

Monday, 9 May 2011 09:17 by Rickard Nilsson

Rickard arbetar med Mac

Photographed for Hotspot · Photo by Henrik Bäck

A couple of month ago I switched my Dell dev machine for a new MacBook Pro and it has been a joy ever since. Even though my main work still is in Windows and Visual Studio I much rather do it on a virtual machine on top of Mac OS X than on my old Dell.

I’m running Win7 virtually on VirtualBox complete with my dev tools, including Visual Studio and ReSharper.

For office and communication I’m using Office 2011 and Communicator 2011 for Mac and it works great!

Tags:   mac, visual studio, virtual box, office for mac
Categories:   Personal | Software development
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Join the dark side with Son of Obsidian Visual Studio color scheme

Thursday, 5 May 2011 09:14 by Rickard Nilsson

Son of Obsidian Studio Style


Do you also want to join the dark side? This is the theme I use.

Update: Download My customized Son of Obsidian Visual Studio color scheme for ReSharper

Download it from studiostyl.es/schemes/son-of-obsidian

How to change settings

Go to Tools > Options > Environment > Import and Export Settings

Check Use team settings file and click Browse…

Select the .vssettings file downloaded from above and click OK.

vs-import-export-settings

Done!

Note: When using the team settings file option the previous settings are preserved and can easily be restored by unchecking again.

Tags:   visual studio, vs2008, vs2010, styles, theme, dark side
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