How can I make older color schemes compatible with Visual Studio 2015?

Question

In VS 2013, I use the Selenitic color scheme. When importing it in VS 2015, I see some differences.

VS 2013:

VS 2015:

There are some differences (interface color, XML comment color), the thing that annoys me the most is that the XML comments in 2013 are nicely colored and in 2015 it is all the same color. I also noticed that xml comments are using a different color. I like the syntax highlighting in 2013, the XML comments are more subtle there. Is there a way I can fix this?

Answer 1

I found that some names of the elements in a .vssetting file have been changed. So, you need to rename them to the new ones to import it correctly. Here's the list of changed names which I found so far.

Old Name                                     ->  New Name
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Brace Matching (Rectangle)                   ->  brace matching
String(C# @ Verbatim)                        ->  string - verbatim
User Types                                   ->  class name
User Types(Enums)                            ->  enum name
User Types(Interfaces)                       ->  interface name
User Types(Delegates)                        ->  delegate name
User Types(Value types)                      ->  struct name
Line Numbers                                 ->  Line Number
Razor Code                                   ->  RazorCode
XML Doc Comment                              ->  xml doc comment - text
XML Doc Tag                                  ->  xml doc comment - delimiter
                                                 xml doc comment - name
MarkerFormatDefinition/HighlightedReference  ->  MarkerFormatDefinition/HighlightedReference
                                                 MarkerFormatDefinition/HighlightedDefinition

I believe this is not all, but at least it includes the missing colors you showed.

Answer 2

This doesn't specifically fix the import of a scheme, but the XML comment colors (in VS2015) can be manually changed

Assuming the following comment block

/// <summary>
/// Description
/// </summary>
/// <param name="test">Value</test>
/// <returns>Result</returns>

Go to Tools / Environment / Fonts and Colors:

There are a section of options all starting with "XML Doc Comments - ". Change each of these to change the corresponding part of the comment.

Delimiter:        /// < < /

Name:             summary, param, returns

Attribute Quotes: "

Attribute Name:   name

Text:             Description, Value, Result

I cannot find an option to independently color "test" above - it appears to be linked with "Identifier".