How can I get visual studio text editor background colour?

Question

I want to be able to get the rgb colour of the back of the text editor in visual studio so I can use it in an addin so it goes with the theme the user has set.

Answer 1

If the user has modified the background font it will be stored here:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\11.0\FontAndColors\{58E96763-1D3B-4E05-B6BA-FF7115FD0B7B}\Plain Text Background

If the user has not modified the color, you could key off of the theme they are using based on this registry value:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\11.0\General\CurrentTheme

Answer 2

This is probably what you are after: IVsFontAndColorStorage interface

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-AU/library/microsoft.visualstudio.shell.interop.ivsfontandcolorstorage.aspx