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Aaron Hoffman
Aaron Hoffman

Reputation: 6962

Remove File Menu Toolbar from Visual Studio (Menu Bar)

To increase working space and remove unused items from the Toolbar area, I would like to remove the File/Edit/View/etc toolbar (aka the Menu Bar) from the top of Visual Studio (2008 and 2010) (I don't use any of those, I try to use keystrokes for everything). Is there a way to do this?

This is similar to TinyMenu for Firefox, but I would setting for just removing the toolbar entirely: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1455/

EDIT:

If you right click the toolbar and go to customize the Menu Bar can not be de-selected:

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Upvotes: 6

Views: 6496

Answers (4)

Ujjwal Singh
Ujjwal Singh

Reputation: 4988

In Visual Studio 2008: the best solution would be to: MOVE all the GUI controls 'individually' to the menu bar by dragging with the 'Alt' button held, since you can not move entire tool-bars in to the menu bar at-once. Additionally you can add other required controls in to the menu bar column and can also customize its icon via: Tools > Customize > [Click-to-select-control] > Modify Selection > Change Button Image. This way you will have only one column for all the buttons, typically recommended for a wide-screen. Also to remove any Item from the menu bar: you can Alt+Drag away the menu bar Items like "File", "Help" individually to make space.

Upvotes: 0

riadd
riadd

Reputation: 382

I think this extension should help with that.

Hide Main Menu Extension

Haven't tested it myself though.

Upvotes: 11

Raj More
Raj More

Reputation: 48018

If you really want space, click on View and then click on Full Screen.

Upvotes: 4

detunized
detunized

Reputation: 15289

Right-click the menu bar and select Customize... The Customize dialog should pop up. Then you can take each top level menu item and drag it from the menu bar to the dialog. Nothing more efficient comes to my mind at the moment.

Upvotes: 0

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