How to find the correct color to edit with the Visual Studio 2010 Theme Editor?

Question

I really like the Dark Expression theme for the Visual Studio 2010 Color Theme Editor, apart from a few things here and there.

One example is that certain UI elements (such as e.g. Smart Tags) are almost unreadable because they have dark text on dark backgrounds.

I know that I can use the Customize Colors dialog(!) box to edit the colors, but how do I figure out which color to edit?

There's a lot of colors, and it's not very apparent which ones control which UI elements. Is there any way to figure that out?

Answer 1

you can snoop Visual Studio to find out more information about the colors used etc. With Snoop you can even change the colors and look at the results instantly!

So you can just read out wich color is used on wich place and then search the color by name.