That's why I would suggest you to try some add-in. However, for Toolbox, Solution Explorer, it's the shell. By default, VS2008 IDE doesn't support to change color of the shell. For "Fonts and Colors" feature, we can customize the way the text appears in the different editors. Based on your description, it seems that you want to change the color theme of the entire VS IDE.
#Visual studio dark theme toolbox white background full#
i am looking for the full visual studio 2008 application (file menu, solution explorer window, toolbox, etc.) to duplicate the expression suite 3 dark theme.
Welcome to the All-In-One Code Framework! If you have any feedback, please tell us. Please remember to mark the replies as answers if they help and unmark them if they provide no help. Hope this helps! If you have any concern, please feel free to let me know. This would be helpful to improve Visual Studio products. If this suggestion is reasonable and other customers have the similar concern on this feature, they will let us know their comments further through that portal. To feedback it in the formal way, you can submit this suggestion on our Connect portal site: Every feedback submitted will be evaluated carefully by our engineers. If it doesn't disturb you a lot, you can try providing more information on your concern like why you need this feature. I can understand your favor on Expressoin Suite 3 dark theme. Microsoft continues to improve the product and provide better user experience to use the product for the later version. It might not be changed even we resort to VSX. I'm afraid that VS2008 IDE theme could not be changed since it is the part of shell. I've read the thread that you posted in the Visual Studio Extensibility forum and done some search on this issue.