How can I add “Toggle On/Off Code Lens” as a quick command button on Visual Studio?

Question

I would like to have a quick command button displayed on my Menu bar to turn on/off the Code Lens. I understand there is a keyboard shortcut available for it:

The EditorContextMenus.CodeLens.CodeLensOptions command for keyboard shortcut, but I cannot make it as a quick command button.

It will be very awesome I can see a quick button on my VS Menu to quickly toggle it. (instead of remember it as keyboard shortcut)

How can I achieve this?

Answer 1

Apparently this is as hard as it looks - even though the command definitely exists, it is nowhere to be found in any of the menus when clicking "Add Command...". But this is a fixable oversight.

Here's what I did:

• Made a copy %LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\VisualStudio\<version>\Settings\CurrentSettings.vssettings
• Added a random command to my menu bar
• Removed "CodeLens Options..." from the respective menu using the command editor:
  
• Closed all instances of Visual Studio for changes to be flushed to disk
• Ran an XML formatter on both files and then a diff on them
  (note: some diff tools like Beyond Compare have a built-in XML formatter)
• The diff revealed the command's GUID and CmdPri:

  <remove Cmd="{7660636A-8C08-4430-A56F-146E42A8B2C5}:00000001" CmdPri="01000000" Group="{7660636A-8C08-4430-A56F-146E42A8B2C5}:00002000" GroupPri="01000000" Menu="{7660636A-8C08-4430-A56F-146E42A8B2C5}:00003000" IsPartialRemoval="false"/>
  

• Modified my new command's Cmd and CmdPri to be that of the removed CodeLens command:

  <add Cmd="{7660636A-8C08-4430-A56F-146E42A8B2C5}:00000001" CmdPri="01000000" Group="{D309F791-903F-11D0-9EFC-00A0C911004F}:00000174" GroupPri="09000000" Menu="{D309F791-903F-11D0-9EFC-00A0C911004F}:00000001"/>
  

And voila - the command is now residing in the appropriate toolbar and you can move/modify it as you please:

You can now also go and reset the original CodeLens menu that you have removed it from.