beautiful listing for CSharp

Question

Does anyone have a nice typesetting style for the C# language using listings? I configure it in this way:

\lstset{language=[Sharp]C,,basicstyle=\footnotesize,
  showspaces=false,showtabs=false,,breaklines=true,
  showstringspaces=false,breakatwhitespace=true,
  escapeinside={(*@}{@*)}}

But still it doesn't look fine, T_T. In my configuration I have characters that are too rounded and the code looks like if it was written using a typewriter. I don't want that. I want a modern, clear font, that looks more similar to the what I see in Visual Studio.

Final Election.

Thanks to all you guys, for give me ways to improve the appearance of the code. My final election is from the answer of @PauloCereda, little tuned with one of the comments and a bfseries touch for keywords. Here is the code and how it looks:

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[scaled]{beramono}

\usepackage{color}
\definecolor{bluekeywords}{rgb}{0.13,0.13,1}
\definecolor{greencomments}{rgb}{0,0.5,0}
\definecolor{redstrings}{rgb}{0.9,0,0}

\usepackage{listings}
\lstset{language=[Sharp]C,
showspaces=false,
showtabs=false,
breaklines=true,
showstringspaces=false,
breakatwhitespace=true,
escapeinside={(*@}{@*)},
commentstyle=\color{greencomments},
keywordstyle=\color{bluekeywords}\bfseries,
stringstyle=\color{redstrings},
basicstyle=\ttfamily
}

\begin{document}

\begin{lstlisting}
/**
* Prints Hello World.
**/
class Program
{
  public static void Main()
  {
    System.Console.WriteLine("Hello World!");
  }
}
\end{lstlisting}

\end{document}

Answer 1

Based on Thorsten's code, I added colors to keywords, strings and comments and replaced the current typewriter font by Inconsolata.

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{inconsolata}

\usepackage{color}
\definecolor{bluekeywords}{rgb}{0.13,0.13,1}
\definecolor{greencomments}{rgb}{0,0.5,0}
\definecolor{redstrings}{rgb}{0.9,0,0}

\usepackage{listings}
\lstset{language=[Sharp]C,
  showspaces=false,
  showtabs=false,
  breaklines=true,
  showstringspaces=false,
  breakatwhitespace=true,
  escapeinside={(*@}{@*)},
  commentstyle=\color{greencomments},
  keywordstyle=\color{bluekeywords},
  stringstyle=\color{redstrings},
  basicstyle=\ttfamily
}

\begin{document}

\begin{lstlisting}
/**
* Prints Hello World.
**/
class Program
{
  public static void Main()
  {
    System.Console.WriteLine("Hello World!");
  }
}
\end{lstlisting}

\end{document}

Resulting in:

According to the Inconsolata documentation, loading it redefines the \tt font.

Answer 2

You may use basicstyle to customize the font:

\documentclass{minimal}
\usepackage{bold-extra}
\usepackage{listings}
\lstset{language=[Sharp]C,
  showspaces=false,
  showtabs=false,
  breaklines=true,
  showstringspaces=false,
  breakatwhitespace=true,
  escapeinside={(*@}{@*)},
  basicstyle=\ttfamily,
  columns=fullflexible
}
\begin{document}
\begin{lstlisting}
class Program
{
  public static void Main()
  {
    System.Console.WriteLine("Hello World!");
  }
}
\end{lstlisting}
\end{document}

Alternatively you could use lmodern instead of bold-extra as Andrey Vihrov suggested.

Answer 3

There is a list of Visual Studio styles that you can choose as a reference. The following figure shows some of them.

Afterwards, you need to look up the name of colors, fonts, etc used there to create your own listings style. Creating listings style can be found in What configuration do you propose for listings.sty to make the output look comfortable?.

Answer 4

If you don't mind solutions that involve other tools, I like to use Pygments to generate code listings for inclusion in my documents. It can process dozens of programming languages and other markup. Just pipe your code listing through their command-line program and \input the resulting markup in your document.

Answer 5

If you compile the document with xelatex or lualatex, you can use any TrueType or OpenType font you want. So you could use for example the font that Visual Studio uses. Just load the fontspec package and use something like \setmonofont{Inconsolata} together with basicstyle=\texttt. Or define a font family explicitly for code, as in the following example.

\documentclass{minimal}
\usepackage{fontspec,xcolor}

% Define \codefont to switch to the font 'Ubuntu'.
% (I find the font size more pleasing when the lower case
% characters are scaled to the size of the lower case of the
% surrounding text.)
\newfontfamily\codefont[Scale=MatchLowercase]{Ubuntu}

\usepackage{listings}
\lstset{language=[Sharp]C,
  showspaces=false,
  showtabs=false,
  breaklines=true,
  showstringspaces=false,
  breakatwhitespace=true,
  escapeinside={(*@}{@*)},
  basicstyle=\codefont,             % use the font defined as \codefont
  stringstyle=\color{blue!70!black},
  commentstyle=\color{green!70!black},
  columns=fullflexible
}
\begin{document}

\begin{lstlisting}
// A program that prints a greeting message.
class Program
{
  public static void Main()
  {
    System.Console.WriteLine("Hello World!");
  }
}
\end{lstlisting}
\end{document}

Also see the listings manual for lots of ways to customize the formatting of listings.