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Can you apply a custom skin / appearance to SSMS? I am thinking something along the lines of a dark theme (black background, yellow font) you'd find in most IDEs
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The SSMS Add-in allows you to set your own hotkey (default is Ctrl - K , Ctrl - F , to match Visual Studio), and formats the entire script or just the code you have selected/highlighted, if any. Output formatting is customizable.
Click Options on the Tools menu. Click Environment, and then click Fonts and Colors. In the Show settings for list, select Text Editor. Change the font, size, display item, foreground and background colors.
Reopen SSMS and navigate to the 'Color theme' dropdown as we did earlier. Now, we will see a fourth option for Dark Mode. Unfortunately, it only changes the Ribbon and the Query Window. The Object Explorer and Results Grid aren't changed.
Once you restart SSMS go to Menu >> Tools >> Options >> Environment >> General and see the color theme, you will notice that it will have an option for the dark theme. Select this option and click on Save. Next, you will see that your SSMS's theme will be switched to the dark theme.
I decided to try something simple on SSMS 2012:
Note that doing this will only affect the theme of the text editor, not the toolbar, menu, object explorer window, etc.
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