VS2013 Theme

Classic Visual Studio 2013 styling with three color variants. Built from embedded .vstheme.gz (gzip-compressed) theme resources using the VS theme parser infrastructure.

Installation 

dotnet add package Dirkster.AvalonDock.Themes.VS2013

Variants

Dark 

dockManager.Theme = new Vs2013DarkTheme();

Dark color scheme matching Visual Studio 2013’s dark mode.

Light 

dockManager.Theme = new Vs2013LightTheme();

Light color scheme for a clean, professional appearance.

Blue 

dockManager.Theme = new Vs2013BlueTheme();

The signature Visual Studio blue accent theme.

Embedded Theme Resources

The VS2013 themes are packaged as gzip-compressed .vstheme.gz files. You can access the raw bytes for custom processing:

byte[] darkBytes = VsThemeResources.Dark;
byte[] lightBytes = VsThemeResources.Light;
byte[] blueBytes = VsThemeResources.Blue;

These are parsed at runtime through VsThemeParser.ParseGZip() and mapped to AvalonDock resource keys via VsThemePaletteFactory. See the VS Theme page for details on the .vstheme parsing API.

Screenshots

Dark Light
VS2013 Dark VS2013 Light
VS2013 Dark - Tool Window VS2013 Light - Tool Window

For a comprehensive demo, see the VS2013 Dark/Light Demo Client wiki page.