How create custom sharepoint 2013 theme in Visual Studio

Please advice! I created a custom theme for sharepoint 2013 with fonts, colors and masterpage. Using Design Manager i created a wsp file for this theme. After this i could upload this file to any site and choose my theme. As i understood, Design Manager
take all files from site (all masterpages, colors and etc), not only my files.
Now i want to understand how i can create a custom theme in visual studio. I want include in my wsp files only files which i need and may be make a feature, which will be activate my custom theme.
Please give any useful recouses which can help to understand how make it right :). Thanks a lot!
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Hi Evgeny,
check the following for how to do that
http://weblogs.asp.net/sreejukg/customize-sharepoint-2013-look-and-feel-for-intranet-sites
http://weblogs.asp.net/sreejukg/apply-custom-theme-to-sharepoint-2013-mysite-using-feature-stapling
http://www.sharepointeurope.com/blog/2013/5/3/creating-sharepoint-2013-themes,-first-look,-gotchas,-provisioning-with-visual-studio-2012
http://yuriburger.net/2013/03/24/deploying-and-activating-sharepoint-2013-themes-using-visual-studio/
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