What's the best way to change the VS 2022 title bar text from within my extension's InitializeAsync()?

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What's the best way to change the VS 2022 title bar text from within my extension's InitializeAsync()?

Tom Montgomery 0

I'm trying to change the VS 2022 IDE title bar text, and the current available extensions don't do what I want. I'm currently using the default "short title" or "compact title" or whatever it's called, so that's what I'm trying to change.

The extension documentation makes it incredibly difficult to ever find what you need to do, so does anyone know? I'm guessing a service I can get asynchronously would fit best in my InitializeAsync(), but I don't if one exists.

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Anna Xiu-MSFT 31,186 Microsoft External Staff

Hi @Tom Montgomery,

Welcome to Microsoft Q&A!

Maybe you can try the extension: Customize Visual Studio Window Title.

Sincerely,

Anna

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Tom Montgomery 0 Reputation points

2023-03-08T13:38:21.6233333+00:00

Thanks for suggest, but like I said the current extensions available can't do what I want. I used to use one that was more fully featured, but that's gone now sadly.
Anna Xiu-MSFT 31,186 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff

2023-03-09T07:09:06.1266667+00:00

Hello, can you tell me how you want to change the title?
Tom Montgomery 0 Reputation points

2023-03-10T11:28:10.5033333+00:00

I'd like to be able to test the path of the current solution for certain strings, and if they exist, add the name of a folder in that path to the text in the title bar (or compact title or whatever it's called). I can do all of this except the actual setting of the title text.

There was an extension called "Visual Studio Window Title Changer" that I used to use that allowed you to use logic to calculate the new name, but that no longer exists (I think because the extensibility changes broke it).
Tom Montgomery 0 Reputation points

2023-03-10T11:29:33.43+00:00

In an ideal world there would be a way to change this, and VS would still update it with the "debugging" etc text it puts there, but I'm happy to lose that if it's the only way to actually change the title.
Tom Montgomery 0 Reputation points

2023-03-10T11:47:27.4766667+00:00

So a solution path like

c:\users\name\projects\project_name\modified\foldertoserach\app1\app1.sln

would get a title in VS of "project_name - app1" if the folder 'foldertosearch' exists, for a more concreate example.

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