How to avoid "Data Lake" menu item appearing in menu bar of Visual Studio 2015?

Question

When I start Visual Studio Professional 2015 Update 2 and open my vb.net project, Data Lake item is not present in the main menu bar. But it appears later on, during development work. I did not notice so far on which particular action it appears. Did you already notice which action makes Data Lake permanently visible?

I would like to keep it hidden, because it causes keyboard shortcut conflict: its Alt+D is already well-established way to open Debug menu (on the same menu bar).

Answer 1

The Data Lake menu item will show up when you use any of the Data Lake functionality. For instance, if you open a Data Lake project or Navigate to a Data Lake Analytics Account in Server Explorer. If you don't use Data Lake, you can uninstall "Microsoft Azure Data Lake Tools for Visual Studio" from the Control Panel->Programs. If you use Data Lake, we'll look into fixing this shortcut conflict in future versions of the product.