Customizing the Development Environment
You can change the appearance and behavior of the Visual Studio integrated development environment (IDE) in many ways. Visual Studio includes several predefined settings combinations that you can use to apply a group of customizations to the IDE. In addition, you can make individual customizations to items such as windows, toolbars, shortcut keys, and various displays options.
In This Section
- How to: Customize Dynamic Help
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Instructions for reducing the type of topics and categories that appear in the Dynamic Help window.
- Customizing Toolbars
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Instructions for adding and customizing the appearance of toolbars.
- How to: Launch Tools from Visual Studio
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Instructions for adding a command on the Tools menu to launch applications external to Visual Studio from within Visual Studio.
- How to: Customize the News Section of the Start Page
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Instructions for specifying a custom RSS feed for the Start Page.
- How to: Change the Item Displayed on Start Up of the Development Environment
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Instructions for specifying that a particular dialog box, page, or empty environment is displayed when you start the IDE.
- Working with Settings
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Information about how settings work in the IDE, importing and exporting settings, and changing base settings.
