Get Visual Studio Color Scheme from VSPackage

Question

Does anyone know how I can get the color scheme programmatically using VSPackage in C #?

I know that I can use IVsUIShell5.GetThemedColor for VS2011, but I do not know how to get it from VS2005, VS2008 or VS2010.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

There are two ways to use IVSShell and IVSShell2:

  private List<Color> GetColorList1() { IVsUIShell uiShell = (IVsUIShell)this.GetService(typeof(IVsUIShell)); List<Color> result = new List<Color>(); foreach (VSSYSCOLOR vsSysColor in Enum.GetValues(typeof(VSSYSCOLOR))) { uint win32Color; uiShell.GetVSSysColor(vsSysColor, out win32Color); Color color = ColorTranslator.FromWin32((int)win32Color); result.Add(color); } return result; } private List<Color> GetColorList2() { IVsUIShell2 uiShell = (IVsUIShell2)this.GetService(typeof(IVsUIShell2)); List<Color> result = new List<Color>(); foreach (__VSSYSCOLOREX vsSysColor in Enum.GetValues(typeof(__VSSYSCOLOREX))) { uint win32Color; uiShell.GetVSSysColorEx((int)vsSysColor, out win32Color); Color color = ColorTranslator.FromWin32((int)win32Color); result.Add(color); } return result; } 

Answer 2

I found a solution:

 [Guid("0D915B59-2ED7-472A-9DE8-9161737EA1C5")] interface SVsColorThemeService { } 

then

 dynamic colorThemeService = _serviceProvider.GetService(typeof(SVsColorThemeService)); Guid id = colorThemeService.CurrentTheme.ThemeId; // should be one of the Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.KnownColorThemes 

Answer 3

I realized that this is actually the answer.

What you want to get is not expanded by IVsUIShell4 and below

I would like to add that to my knowledge Visual Studio 2005-2010 does not even have topics for a single message. At least Visual Studio 2012 is changing this mechanic. You can download the settings file, but they are not topics for everyone.

Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.Interop does not even require numbering.

Answer 4

I assume that if there is no siutable API, you can always do this directly in the registry.

You can also see this link: How to access the embedded fonts and color scheme