Can't move toolbar item into toolbar menu in Visual Studio customization

Question

I'm using Visual Studio 2017, and I really need a menu with useful buttons in the toolbar, now when I got into the customization menu TOOLS -> Customize -> Commands.

I made a custom menu "MY_MENU" and menu item "Close Project", but for some reason I just can't move the menu item into the menu (see picture). How do I do this?

Answer 1

I believe I had the same problem as the questioner, and managed to solve it, details below. Note: I use Visual Studio 2015 Professional, but this should apply to later versions as well.

Scenario

I created a new Toolbar FooToolBar, and placed to the toolbars like this:

Goal

To place the "Solution explorer" icon inside the menu.

Problem

Inside the Customize window you can't just drag&drop the item to the menu:

Solution

Inside the Toolbar combobox, a new item appeared, select that:

After this, you will see a new area where you should place the icon you wanted to. Also, remove the previous icon from the previous, FooToolBar toolbar item.

After doing this, press OK and it will work.

Result

I hope I helped someone. :-)