Personalize Visual Studio Code

In this Visual Studio Code tutorial, we show you how to personalize Visual Studio Code with themes.

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• Change your Color Theme.
• Install a new Color Theme from the VS Code Extension Marketplace.
• Change your File Icon Theme.

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Related resources

• User and Workspace Settings - Configure user and workspace settings.
• Key Bindings - See the default keyboard shortcuts (key bindings) for editing, navigation, and more.
• Snippets - Create your own custom snippets.
• Themes - Change your Color Theme to customize VS Code's background text and language syntax colorization.