Toolbars

The Visual Studio toolbars are easy to rearrange. Grab the four gray dots on a toolbar’s left or upper edge and drag the toolbar to its new position. If you drag a toolbar to one of the Visual Studio edges, it will dock there either horizontally (on the IDE’s top or bottom edge) or vertically (on the IDE’s left or right edge). If you drop a toolbar away from the IDE’s edges, it becomes a floating window not docked to the IDE.

You can use the menu commands described earlier in this chapter 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.