It would have been nice to be able to set both the foreground and the background color, expecially under the "Highlight Matching {}" so the brackets, parenthesis can be more visible.
To control colors, use the IDE's Options | Environment | Fonts and Colors property page. You should see entries of the form "VA X ...". If you don't, use this procedure to restore the VA X entries:
Exit all instances of VS2008 Delete this registry key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER \\ Software \\ Microsoft \\ VisualStudio \\ 9.0 \\ FontAndColors \\ Cache \Restart Visual Studio
For users running VS2005, replace 9.0 with 8.0.
Kevin Sikes Infotainment Platform Design Engineer Ford Motor Company