Lastly, hit OK to apply the changes and you’re done! Now you will find that under Visual Experience, the Color theme dropdown box can be changed from the default Light to Dark.

Next, in the new Options window that opens, make sure under the Environment left sidebar settings to select the General tab.

Go ahead open up your Visual Studio and then from the top-menu go to Tools and then from the dropdown list click on Options.

How to Change to Dark Theme on Visual Studio: 3 Steps

This will only take you less than 3 minutes.

In this guide, I will show you step-by-step on how you access the Visual Studio light/dark theme setting and then proceeding to enable dark mode on your interface. Having a dark theme on an IDE like Visual Studio can at times be comforting to for the eyes, especially if you’ve been working on it for long hours.Īlthough, the steps on how to enable dark mode on Visual Studio remains complicated because it is hidden somewhere in the multitude of tabs that Visual Studio has.

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