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Modifying the IDE Appearance
The Commands tab displays a categorized list of commands that you can
execute using either a menu entry or a toolbar icon, as shown in Figure 1-10.
The Categories list helps you locate a command more quickly.
Figure 1-10:
The
Commands
tab shows
all the
commands
you can
execute
in Visual
Studio.
To use Commands tab, select an entry in the Categories list. Locate the
command you want to add, drag it to a menu or toolbar, and drop it. At that
point, you can right-click the command and configure it as desired.
You may wonder at this point how you add a new menu. The Categories list
contains a special New Menu category. Simply drag the New Menu command
to the location you want, even a top-level location, and drop it in place.
Configuring your custom menu is the same as using any other command.
If you make a mistake changing a command, which includes menus, you can
return the commands to their default state by right-clicking the command
and choosing Reset from the context menu. Be careful about where you
use Reset. If you reset a custom command, what you’ll see is a blank entry,
rather than an unmodified version of the command you expect because a
custom command has no default state.
Modifying windows
Visual Studio provides considerable flexibility in working with windows.
Windows have two states: hidden or visible. You can’t hide an editing
window, but you can hide any other window simply by clicking the Auto
Hide button in the upper-right corner (the icon looks like a thumbtack).
The window will slide out of view except for a label identifying its position.
When you move the mouse over to the label, the window reappears. Hiding
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