Add commands to toolbars

A toolbar is a horizontal or vertical strip that contains buttons bound to commands. You can add your own commands to toolbars on many different windows in Visual Studio: the main Visual Studio window, the Solution Explorer, and your own custom tool windows.

This section shows a number of things you can do with commands on toolbars.

In this section

• Add a toolbar explains how to add a toolbar to the set of toolbars in the main Visual Studio window.

• Add a toolbar to a tool window explains how to add a toolbar to a tool window.

• Add a command to the Solution Explorer toolbar explains how to add a command to the toolbar on the Solution Explorer.

• Add a menu controller to a toolbar explains how to add a menu controller to a toolbar.

• Dynamically add menu items explains how to add menu items dynamically in different contexts.