I give technical presentations from time to time, and use Visual Studio frequently during these presentations. Lots of people have asked me what Theme is use because they think the black background and the font colors are nice.

Here’s what you have been looking for: I use a theme made by Roby Conery. Rob’s theme mimics the Ruby color scheme in TextMate (text editor for Mac).

I use TextMate when programming on my Mac. I typically write programs in Ruby or Python, and I must admit that TextMate has a very nice color scheme for these languages. I especially like the black background because it eases my eyes when looking at the screen.

Here are some samples of this theme: