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Color and icon themes

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Color and icon themes

- [Instructor] If there's one thing I've learned over the years, it's that developers really bond with their code editors. Everything from how many spaces to use to indent with, to which font to use for coding, and even the colors to use for various symbols in the source code are uniquely suited to each developer. VS Code ships with several default color schemes to choose from right out of the box. To choose a color scheme, look under the Preferences menu here in the Code menu, and again if you're on Windows or Linux the Preferences menu will be under the file name. Select the Color Theme entry, and you'll see a pop up list of all the installed color themes. And as I use the arrow keys to cycle through each one in the list, you can see that the color theme of the editor changes. Of course, if you don't like any of the ones that are installed by default, you can always choose a new one from the Visual Studio Marketplace. So, I'll just go ahead and take a look at some of the various…

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