Eye Savior It is a travesty of the highest order that, In the year of our lord, 2024, SSMS STILL does not have a dark mode. SQL Shades gets rid of the hacky hoops you used to have to jump through to make this happen. It's free, but even if it wasn't, it would be worth every penny, so buy my man a cup of coffee or two.

FINALLY- All these years using a… FINALLY- All these years using a "Hack" to get some sort of dark mode are finally behind us!... Thank you so much for the work you put to get the plugin working. I've already shared with others how great it is.

Saves my eyes daily Been using this for several months now, it's really good of my eyes. SSMS was one of the last few tools I use daily that did not support a true dark mode. I work a lot of SQL and BI stuff, so this is truly a blessing. Thank you SQLShades!

Download problems. @SQL Shades - is there any way to get a straight download link? For some stupid reason, the sqlshades.com website is blocked by my company's firewall, and I'm tired of going blind looking at SSMSv20's white everything theme.

Dark mode for SSMS! I've been moving towards dark mode for all applications I use. I was surprised to see that SQL Management Studio had no such option (since it's based on Visual Studio which has a dark theme). That's where SQL Shades saved the day!