ClaudiaIDE

May 10, 2026 · View on GitHub

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

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.

Ver 3.1.16 Experimental support about animation gif and mp4 video file play in background.
Ver 3.1.7 Support OS color theme setting and dark theme setting.
Ver 3.0.1 The ClaudiaIDE has been split into two Visual Studio versions, because the older version that needs to be resolved dependency of EnvDTE in Visual Studio 2022.
Ver 3.0.0 support Visual Studio 2022 preview 1. However unfortunately drop off support for Visual Studio 2017. If you want support VS2017 ver, you can try use ver 2.2.19. Now mainstream is support Visual Studio 2019 and 2022 only.