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Chapter 4, Customizing Visual Studio

#25 Customize Menus and Toolbars

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Customize Menus and Toolbars Hack #25

You can make Visual Studio work just the way you want. After you create

your own menu and toolbar items, you can even move these settings

between machines.

Visual Studio includes an impressive number of menus and toolbars. In this

hack, you will learn how you can customize them.

Customize Toolbars

The Visual Studio toolbar can be customized in a number of ways, includ-

ing ways to add new toolbars and buttons, as well as modify and rearrange

current toolbars.

Modify existing toolbars. Before looking at creating new custom toolbars, let’s

look at modifying the existing toolbars. One of the easiest things to do is

move buttons around on an existing toolbar or move buttons from one tool-

bar to another. This can be done by simply holding down the Alt key and

dragging and dropping a button from one toolbar to another or into a differ-

ent position on the current toolbar.

You can also add and remove buttons from existing toolbars using the Cus-

tomize screen, which can be accessed a couple of different ways. The first

way to access this screen is to go to Tools

➝ Customize. You can also click

on the small down arrow to the right of every toolbar, select Add or Remove

Buttons, and then select Customize. Either approach brings you to the dia-

log shown in Figure 4-4.

Once you are in this ...