Very useful tips to change the boring look of vs2010 from hanselman.com< \a>
What I followed
Close all toolbars
Close all pinned Toolboxes
Get a fresh font and color theme for Visual Studio from http://studiostyl.es, I choose wekeRoad ink, which is a dark theme.
If you are using the Visual Studio IDE 2008 onwards, you will not find the event handlers by double clicking on the components or from the drop down box in code view.
You have to toto properties of that component and click the Events icon. You find all the event handlers there. Double-click the event that you want to create, for example the Load event.