Comments on: Color Schemes in SQL 2005 Management Studio

By: Stu

Stu — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:33:44 +0000

@Tomas

Sorry – I’ve done some googling as I should have in the first place and found some regedit docs… I’ll figure it out. Thanks a lot!

By: Stu

Stu — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:27:46 +0000

@Tomas – I saw that, sorry my question wasn’t clear. The part I’m having difficulty with is backing up my existing registry key in case of catastrophe! Should I modify the code to do this before the settings are transferred over or is there a way of doing this through Windows explorer?

By: Tomas Restrepo

Tomas Restrepo — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 23:32:18 +0000

@Stu: Did you see the comment left by Simon above about which keys to change in the app to do the migration for you?

By: Stu

Stu — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 12:15:58 +0000

Hey Tomas

I’ve been using one of your dark themes (Ragnarok Grey) with VS2008 for a while and I love it. I’m looking to use this in SSMS2008 too but I’m struggling to find by reg key to back it up. You might say that if I don’t even know where to find this I really shouldn’t be messing about with it, but I’m dying to bring SSMS to the dark side!

By: kostya

kostya — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 10:01:33 +0000

Great job!!!
You save my eyes

By: Dragos

Dragos — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 11:40:23 +0000

Thanks a lot man!

By: TextMate theme for SSMS 2005/2008 - blah blah blah

TextMate theme for SSMS 2005/2008 - blah blah blah — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 23:23:02 +0000

[...] after a little digging on google I managed to find this post by Tomas Restrepo where he had actually written a tool to import the registry settings from [...]

By: Simon Morley

Simon Morley — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 12:34:23 +0000

Just change the registry values to the following for Visual Studio 2008 -> SSMS 2008

SRC_KEY = @”Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\9.0\FontAndColors\{A27B4E24-A735-4D1D-B8E7-9716E1E3D8E0}”;

DST_KEY = @”Software\Microsoft\Microsoft SQL Server\100\Tools\Shell\FontAndColors\{A27B4E24-A735-4D1D-B8E7-9716E1E3D8E0}”;

Thanks to Tomas for this handy tool!

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 19:27:31 +0000

Pradeep, can you share?

By: Pradeep K.

Pradeep K. — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 15:20:59 +0000

Took me some time to convert this to VB .Net, and figure out a way to make it work between VS 2008 and SSMS 2008… But it was well worth it! Many thanks.