Visual Studio Hacks

Customize Menus and Toolbars #25

Chapter 4, Customizing Visual Studio

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3. Next, you need to change your image a little bit so you can differentiate

between the two. This can be done using the Edit Button Image com-

mand in the menu. Click on the Edit Button Image command, and you

will see a small image editor that you can use to modify the image. In

this example, simply replace the blue arrows of the image with red

arrows. This is a minor change, but should be enough to remind you

that this button is for rebuilding whereas the other button is for build-

ing.

4. After changing the icon, you can change the display style to Default

Style; this will cause just the image to be shown on the menu.

The end result is shown in Figure 4-8.

Adding new toolbars. Adding a new toolbar is similar in many ways to modi-

fying an existing toolbar. Instead of starting with an existing toolbar, you

need to create your own. This is done from the Customize screen found by

going to Tools

➝ Customize. On this screen, you need to click the New but-

ton. You will then be prompted to name your new toolbar. After you name

the toolbar, it will be saved and will show up in the list of toolbars, and you

can edit it just as if it were a preexisting system toolbar.

Customize Menus

Customizing menus is very similar to customizing toolbars. Open the Cus-

tomize screen through Tools

➝ Customize. Once open, instead of working

on