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How Do I install Custom Color Themes for SSMS?

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Tim Cartwright edited this page Jul 21, 2018 · 13 revisions

VSColorThemes

You can now install VSColorThemes to SSMS. Installing these themes gives you many new themes:

Theme Options

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.

There are two ways to install these themes:

Installer

I have created an installer. Just download the repo as a zip or clone the repo. Then run the install.ps1 using powershell. The installer will attempt to install the themes to every ssms you have installed.

Manual installation

  • 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
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