Has anyone had any success with, for example, applying a 'dark' them to the Text Editor component of of SSMS 2008?
There was an old trick for 2005 which is no longer operational and has not been upgraded. http://winterdom.com/2007/10/colorschemesinsql2005managementstudio
My eyes will thank you very much! Cheers.
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I used this approach and theme provided here, it worked for me in SSMS 2008:
Beautify Your Management Studio 2005/2008
There is also a comment which provides the proper registry location for changing the theme in SSMS 2012, which only seems to differ by the version number.