In this blog I want to share with you, how you can reduce the amount of clicks needed to access the Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations developer tools in Visual Studio.
I´ve recently started to use Visual Studio 2019 for my MsDyn365FO development work. All in all the extension works quite well with Visual Studio 2019 and the extension gets automatically installed for Visual Studio 2019 (if it´s installed on your development VM) during the service/quality update deployment. So if you´ve Visual Studio 2019 installed, you can simply try it out.
The most annoying thing with Visual Studio 2019 for me was, that the commands of the MsDyn365FO extension are kind of hidden in the extension menu. As you may notice, If this is the most annoying point, the extension might work quite well 
To overcome this annoyance and to make the experience even better, you can use a native Visual Studio feature (also present in VS2017), which allows you to customize the toolbars. To get the commands of the MsDyn365FO extension accessible with only one click, you can do the following:
Right-click on the top toolbar and select customize
Create a new toolbar with name MsDyn365FO and activate the new created toolbar
Add the commands of the MsDyn365FO extension to the newly created toolbar
The result of the customization of the toolbar, you can see in the banner of this post.
Hey great blog post and really a great hack for increasing the productivity
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