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ClaudiaIDE is a Visual Studio extension for displaying images in the background of the editor.

Features

• Display images in the background of Visual Studio
  • Background of windows displaying text, such as text editors and XAML editors (some editors and windows are not supported)
  • Or the background of Visual Studio itself
• Selectable display formats
  • Display a specified image (local file path or URL)
  • Slideshow display of images under a specified folder
  • Display different images per text editor
  • Slideshow display of different images per text editor
  • Periodically call a Web API to display images from URLs in a JSON file as a slideshow
• Detailed image settings
  • Adjust display position
  • Adjust stretch
  • Adjust opacity and zoom level
  • Tile display
  • Edge blur processing
• Display area adjustments
  • Text editor only or Visual Studio itself
  • Fixed scroll background color adjustment
  • Scrollbar transparency
  • Editor background color change
• Supported file formats
  • Image files such as PNG, JPG, GIF
  • Animated GIF
  • Video files (MP4)
• Light theme and dark theme support
  • Individual settings for each
  • Can follow the OS system theme settings
• Solution-specific configuration using .claudiaide file

For setting details, please refer to Settings.

About Claudia

This extension was originally a Visual Studio 2012 extension that simply displayed Claudia Madobe in the background of Visual Studio. Claudia Madobe (クラウディア 窓辺) is a character created by Microsoft Japan — a promotional creative character supporting Microsoft Azure (then known as Windows Azure). It was unusual for the time in that guidelines for secondary use were established, and this extension was used in accordance with those guidelines. However, over the years the guidelines and pages related to Claudia disappeared from the official site.

The rights situation has become ambiguous today, but we continue to use her as the nickname and default image.