How to change width of “Solution Configurations” drop-down in VS2012 IDE?

Many Visual Studio users face issue when “Solution Configuration” value exceeds the width of the drop down control. User can see only truncated value.

In my case I had Solution Configuration values as “DebugProj_x64” and “DebugProj_x86” but in VS 2012 these values were shown as “DebugProj” only. So there was no way to identify, from UI itself, whether selected config is x64 or x86.

Here is a way to increase the size of “Solution Configuration” drop down in VS 2012.

Step 1:

Go to Tools menu >> Customize

Step 2:

Select Command Tab >> Select Toolbar radio button >> Standard >> Solution Configuration >> Click modify selection >> change value of Width here.