MinimalisticView2026

This is a port of Hide Main Menu, Title Bar, and Tabs extension for Visual Studio 2026 Insiders.

Download

You can download the extension from the Visual Studio Marketplace: Hide Main Menu, Title Bar, and Tabs 2026

About This Port

This extension is not directly converted from the original poma/MinimalisticView source code.

Instead, it was created by:

1. Downloading the MinimalisticView_VS2022.vsix.xlsx file provided by lesterlo in the Visual Studio 2022 Support issue thread
2. Renaming the .vsix file to .zip and extracting its contents
3. Modifying the Visual Studio version requirements to support Visual Studio 2026 Insiders

Original Extension

The original extension was created by Poma and can be found at:

• Marketplace: Hide Main Menu, Title Bar, and Tabs
• GitHub: poma/MinimalisticView

Original README.md

This extension hides Menu bar, Title bar, and Tab Well. Menu and title bar are in auto-hide mode and are accessible if you press "Alt" or "Ctrl-Q" hotkey or hover mouse over window top. Tabs can also be hidden and you can easily switch between them using Ctrl-Tab or Ctrl-, and other navigation hotkeys.

You can configure setting in Options -> Environment -> MinimalisticView

An extension for programmers who don't use mouse when writing code and want to get rid of unneeded panels that are taking up space and distracting from code.

If you are interested in extension please rate or review it - if enough people are interested I will develop more options and usability features. So far looks like nobody else uses it.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.