Moving an arbitrary setting to a toolbar in Visual Studio

Question

I want to be able to modify a certain setting of Visual Studio right from the toolbar. Specifically, the number of parallel builds (Tools | Options | Projects and Solutions | Build and Run | maximum number of parallel project builds). It can be either an edit box right on the toolbar or two buttons setting it to certain values.

I use Visual Studio 2005.

Any suggestions?

Answer 1

Write macros which will modify the two settings, then put macro on toolbar using "Cusomtize"

Answer 2

(almost) any VS command or property has a corresponding scriptable object that you can call in macros.

Do Alt-F11, go into the macro editor, open the object model window and start sniffing around. You can use search to look for the relevant class/function for a given property (e.g. the number of builds). Once you find it, it's just a matter of writing a few VBA lines that change it and, as Ilya suggested, put that macro in your toolbar.

Btw, it should be possible to put an edit box in the toolbar to get the value; but it would probably be much easier just to call InputBox or something to ask the user for the input.