White background hurts your eyes. They get tired easier. So why not change style of IDE so it would be more pleasant to your eyes?

http://studiostyles.info/ hosts many styles for visual studio. I created one using their tool too. You can grab my theme or pick any other. While themes work fine for c# – they need some fine-tuning for c++. This is what c++ version i came up with:

For fine-tuning of c++ coloring i used great plugin – Visual Assist X