How to disable / use the Visual Studio title bar

Question

I would like to use the space wasted using the Visual Studio 2010 title bar.

Can I place a toolbar or a tab bar in the title bar, such as Google Chrome?

Can I write an extension?

thanks

Answer 1

This seems impossible even with Visual Studio 2012 and Visual Studio 2013.

Answer 2

Visual Studio has a full-screen mode: View → Full Screen Mode (or Shift + Alt + Enter, by default).

Answer 3

This seems to be possible, at least in VS2013 (but will probably work with other versions supported by the VisualCommander extension). Here is the necessary macro, maybe someone will find it useful:

4. Hide the title bar in Visual Studio 2013.

public class E : VisualCommanderExt.IExtension { public void SetSite(EnvDTE80.DTE2 DTE, Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.Package package) { events = DTE.Events; dteEvents = events.DTEEvents; dteEvents.OnStartupComplete += OnStartupComplete; } public void Close() { dteEvents.OnStartupComplete -= OnStartupComplete; } private void OnStartupComplete() { try { HideTitleBar(); } catch { } } private bool HideTitleBar() { System.Windows.FrameworkElement e = FindElement(System.Windows.Application.Current.MainWindow, "MainWindowTitleBar"); if (e != null) { e.Visibility = System.Windows.Visibility.Collapsed; return true; } return false; } private System.Windows.FrameworkElement FindElement(System.Windows.Media.Visual v, string name) { if (v == null) return null; for (int i = 0; i < System.Windows.Media.VisualTreeHelper.GetChildrenCount(v); ++i) { System.Windows.Media.Visual child = System.Windows.Media.VisualTreeHelper.GetChild(v, i) as System.Windows.Media.Visual; if (child != null) { System.Windows.FrameworkElement e = child as System.Windows.FrameworkElement; if (e != null && e.Name == name) return e; } System.Windows.FrameworkElement result = FindElement(child, name); if (result != null) return result; } return null; } private EnvDTE.Events events; private EnvDTE.DTEEvents dteEvents; } 

Source: https://vlasovstudio.com/visual-commander/extensions.html