Thanks. It's 1920x1200 normally, but I turn it 90deg when programming. It's a Dell U2412M. I think most newer Dells have the 90deg pivot.

(A slightly higher resolution would be better, as you can see I don't have a lot of room for VA Outline window)

I'm using the built-in Visual Studio "Dark" Theme with colors from the Solarized Color Palette for syntax highlighting. The designer of that palette lists all kinds of color theory stuff that he took into account, all I know is that the colors contrast perfectly and that the brightness is very consistent.

I'm using the Lucida Console font because I find it more readable than serif fonts.

The width of the code view is set to show exactly 100 columns because I dislike horizontal scrolling, so I break my lines before that length (traditional 80x25 feels just a little bit short for modern code and 100x37 is the next larger terminal size).

EDIT: As requested by asvsfs, also providing the vssettings files:

http://blog.nuclex-games.com/downloads/Solarized-VS2012.vssettings

http://blog.nuclex-games.com/downloads/Solarized-VS2013.vssettings

Boop!

Using Unreal-X to develop my game.

http://jollyrogerstudios.net if you'd like to check it out.

http://unrealxeditor.wordpress.com/

I am not a hardcore programmer. But I am into all dark, when I code I turn everything into dark, dark windows theme, dark firefox, and of course dark color theme for IDE.

Customized version of Gruvbox for codelite, I toggle Ctrl+M while coding and which hides all side tool bars.

For eclipse I use Havenjark and Oblivion for visual studio 2010, nothing fancy

I'm using the built-in Visual Studio "Dark" Theme with colors from the Solarized Color Palette for syntax highlighting.

Just tested out Solarized, and love it! Thanks for the tip :)

So many dark themes, lets brighten up this place . I'm using VS2012 with some modified font colors, disabled status bar and line numbers activated:

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So many dark themes, lets brighten up this place .

So many dark themes, lets brighten up this place .

Hah!

I get burned at work because I'm the only one that has a white background in their text editor. In general I use the default light theme in VS 2012, with some customizations to make it look like 2010 (so, basically a white text editor with lots of blue for the menus and such - I really like it).

I swear, a dark IDE makes me feel claustrophobic. I like to see a blank canvas before me...not a pit of despair.

my environment

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