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When you’re working on a Visual Studio extension, VS let’s you test it in an “Experimental Instance” of Visual Studio. This experimental instance has its own settings in the registry. This means that it can have it’s own theme as well. Since I have my main instance of Visual Studio set to to the Dark Theme, I like to set the experimental instance to the Light Theme. This way I can tell at a glance which one is which.

Note to self: To get SQL Server Reporting Services Business Intelligence projects installed into Visual Studio 2008: When you're installing SQL Server 2008 R2, select at least these items in the Feature list: Database Engine Services, Reporting Services and Business Intelligence Development Studio.