TOOLBARS

The Visual Studio toolbars are easy to rearrange. Simply grab the four gray dots on a toolbar’s left or upper edge and drag the toolbar to its new position. Use the Tools menu’s Customize command to show or hide toolbars. Select a toolbar and click the Modify Selection drop-down to make a toolbar dock to the IDE’s top, left, right, or bottom edges.

You can use the IDE’s menu commands to determine which toolbars are visible, to determine what they contain, and to make custom toolbars of your own.

Many menu commands are also available in standard toolbars. For example, the Debug toolbar contains many of the same commands that are in the Debug menu. If you use a set of menu commands frequently, you may want to display the corresponding toolbar to make using the commands easier. Alternatively, you can make your own custom toolbar and fill it with your favorite commands.

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