![]() So, I asked people on Twitter to send me screenshots of their ultra-wide Visual Studio layouts. They seem to be gaining popularity among developers and I’m curious how Visual Studio can use all this extra space. Ultra-wide means wider than a traditional 16:9 widescreen display – usually 3440×1440 or larger resolution. ![]() I did have success between VS 2017 and VS 2019 but that is the first time it worked for me.Īll in all I love and customize custom bars but please somebody at MS put some focused time on updating this old customization system to be reliable, useable and able to recreate easily the existing bars.A growing number of Visual Studio customers use ultra-wide monitors today. Across upgrades from old to newer VS versions and/or between preview/RTM versions the bars tend to either not come across at all or are corrupted so you mostly end up having to recreate your bars every version. If you crash VS after you’ve customized (or even while) and before you shut down VS it’ll wipe your customizations and you have to start over. Preview/beta versions of VS are notoriously unstable. Toolbars are saved oddly compared to other settings. This was especially common in the early VS 2015 days and may have been resolved but specialized bar commands weren’t creatable.Ĥ. Therefore you cannot recreate the existing standard bars yourself. Some commands don’t even show up in the customization UI. The only way to select the correct command is to look at the existing toolbar and even then the command name does not match what you see in the bar UI so you have to be able to translate. There are at least 3 different commands that will do it and none of them are the same. Have you ever tried to add the “Run” command to a bar. There are so many commands in VS and many have the same names that choosing the right one is challenging. So you end up having to build your bars from right to left instead of left to right.Ģ. When you add a command to a bar it adds it ABOVE the current selection, not below like every other customization UI. ![]() The way you add menus is designed to be efficient, not obvious. It is bad and not for the faint of heart.ġ. For such a core feature it is the one place that seems to have never been touched by ANY VS updates over the years. The problem is that it is beyond horrible to customize them. 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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