For years I have used all my own bars and skipped the built in ones. I definitely love the ability to create my own toolbars in VS. How do you optimize the toolbars and menus in your Visual Studio? Which commands do you use most from the toolbar or menus? How can we make personalizing Visual Studio easier? Chime in from the comments below. So, you are in complete control over the command system and can optimize it to your exact workflows.
You can modify any toolbar using these same techniques as well as any top menu and context menu. Click the Add Command… button to open the command window and find the Options… command.Ĭlicking OK will insert the command on the toolbar and it now looks exactly like I want it to. A dialog pops up:įrom here I can add any command or flyout menu to the toolbar. So why not put that on the toolbar for easy access? To do that, I open the Add and Remove Button menu again and hit the Customize… button at the bottom of the list.
The toolbar now looks like this:Ī command I use all the time is to show the Tools -> Options dialog. I uncheck all the commands I don’t need and add the Manage Extensions command. That will show all the commands currently available for this toolbar, and you can the select or deselect the ones you want to be visible. To remove them, click on the right-hand side of the toolbar to expand the Add or Remove Buttons menu. I know the keyboard shortcuts for those, so there is no reason for the commands to take up space in my toolbar. Those are all very useful commands that I use all the time, but I never use them from the toolbar. It’s got commands for navigation, opening and saving files, undo and redo, etc. Here’s how I made it mine.īefore we dive in, this is what the Standard toolbar looks like in Visual Studio 2022. One of the most visible - and arguably iconic - things about Visual Studio is the Standard toolbar. Just like I would with a home in the real world. Over the years, I’ve learned how to optimize it for my various development workflows-I personalized it. It’s where I’m comfortable, productive, excited, frustrated, and happy. Visual Studio is the application I use the most on any given workday, and I consider it my virtual home.
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