How to change the current line color in Visual Studio 2010?

Question

This may be trivial, but I could not find an answer to it for several weeks. It is tuned to some light gray color, which is very annoying in a dark color theme.

Any ideas how I can change this? Or even turn it off if there is no way to change it.

Answer 1

Tools\Options\Productivity Power Tools\Highlight Current Line 

to enable / disable the function.

 Tools\Options\Environment\Fonts and Colors\ Current Line (Extension) Current Line Inactive (Extension) 

to change colors.

Answer 2

If you, like many of us, use ReSharper, highlighting the current line can be achieved with:

ReSharper / Options ... ; Environment / Editor on the left; check " Select current line ".

After that, you may need to restart Visual studio, and if you do not like this color, change it with:

Tools / Options ... ; Medium / Fonts and colors on the left; " ReSharper Current line is highlighted " on the right

See here for more details.

Answer 3

You can use Visual Studio Theme Generator , where you can change all colors.

Answer 4

To add the answer to Brian above in order to have the extension, you need to install the VC10 extension from the extension manager, see these two links below on how to do it:

http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2010/05/03/visual-studio-2010-extension-manager-and-the-new-vs-2010-powercommands-extension.aspx

http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2010/06/09/visual-studio-2010-productivity-power-tool-extensions.aspx