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Changing the background image of the Visual Studio editor

I happened to be browsing on a discord server, which happens to be the now, go-to VOIP platform for gamers (but is also rapidly growing for other interest groups likewise) and saw this image:

Visual Studio background image (credit to Kudo Khang)
Woah, super cool!

If you had any response like I had, you would be saying right now; how do I get that in my editor?!

ClaudiaIDE

If you go over to the Visual Studio Marketplace, you will find a tool named ClaudiaIDE (I assume as some ode to a lady named Claudia). Download and install the tool (close Visual Studio before installing).

ClaudiaIDE in the Visual Studio Marketplace
Let's get ready to load some images, Claudia

Please just be wary, this isn't an official tool by Microsoft. If any bugs or issues happen, please go and report them in the tool author's github. I am also not responsible for anything that might happen after you install this (but I feel this is generally safe to install or otherwise it wouldn't be on the Visual Studio Marketplace, right?)

Configuration

To configure ClaudiaIDE, open up Visual Studio and go to Tools > Options.

The Visual Studio options menu
The options menu

Find ClaudiaIDE and change the following options (I found these worked best, but feel free to change them around to your liking):
  1. Expand to IDE - False
  2. Image Stretch - UniformToFill
  3. File Path - path to your file


I am sure there are more options to fiddle around with - the animation interval also looks kinda neat!

Visual Studio editor with custom background image
Enjoying the MHW kick right now

Turning off/uninstalling

If you want to temporarily turn off the tool, go into Tools > Options and change the Opacity to 0.

Changing the opacity to 0
No more image :(

If you want to uninstall the tool, go into Tools > Extensions and Updates... Click Uninstall under ClaudiaIDE.

Uninstalling ClaudiaIDE from Visual Studio
To uninstall ClaudiaIDE

You can also Disable the extension, which will disable the extension only after restarting Visual Studio.
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