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- #SQL SERVER MANAGEMENT STUDIO 17 DARK THEME CODE#
- #SQL SERVER MANAGEMENT STUDIO 17 DARK THEME WINDOWS#
Unfortunately, his file doesn’t appear to be available anymore so I’ve exported mine and added it here. And since that’s where I spend most of my time it works for me.
#SQL SERVER MANAGEMENT STUDIO 17 DARK THEME WINDOWS#
The menus, output, windows etc are unchanged but I find the query window much easier to read. In it, he also mentioned Doug Holland’s version which is pretty much what I’m currently using. Now you’ll only have to comment out one single line at the bottom of the file (must be edited as. SSMS Version 18’s new path to the ssms.pkgundef file: C:Program Files (x86)Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio 18Common7IDE. So what’s a guy to do? Well a while back I read a post by Aaron Bertrand ( b/ t) about how he had the colors on SSMS set up. The hidden dark theme still remains hidden with this release and Microsoft has also moved things around. The icon colors are pretty cool, and I like how the disabled stuff is clearly obvious but I find the black on dark gray words in the menu hard to read and overall it’s just a bit too dark for, me. It can’t do everything that SSMS can (it’s also still in preview) but it’s coming along.īut that does bring up another problem. So if you really want the dark theme you can use that. (What I meant by yes and no.) That said the new SQL Operations Studio is fully theme aware. Which means that in SSMS we aren’t ever likely to have a fully consistent dark theme.
#SQL SERVER MANAGEMENT STUDIO 17 DARK THEME CODE#
From what Ken Van Hyning ( t) has said there are many pieces of code that are not theme aware and the cost to fix it is just too high. Also, you’ll notice that it’s not applied everywhere. If you have the dark theme enabled you may have issues with MS support. First, let me point out that as far as I know, this isn’t a supported thing. Once in the file find the Remove Dark Theme category and comment it out (using // at the beginning of each line).īut, there are a few problems. Yes, this means that this only applies to the latest two versions of SSMS. SSMS 17 – C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SQL Server\140\Tools\Binn\ManagementStudio.SSMS 16 – C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SQL Server\130\Tools\Binn\ManagementStudio.Using a text editor run as an administrator edit ssms.pkgundef in one of the following two directories: Where you can select a theme in SSMS (note, no dark theme) Just to be somewhat complete in this post I’m going to review basically how it’s done but follow the link for details. The other day a co-worker of mine (not even a DBA or database developer as it happens) pointed me to this article on SQLShack about setting up the dark theme for SSMS. Although it is harder to see when presenting so I don’t recommend it there, but for day to day work, it’s quite nice. A darker background is just easier to work with. I mean litterally, does it exist yes and will it exist no.įirst of all, why does anyone care? Well, for some of us staring at a white screen all day long is just downright annoying if not headache inducing. And by that I don’t mean yes and no as in maybe. Does it exist, will it exist? Well, the answers really are yes, and no. There has been talk of a dark theme for SSMS for years.