What is the way to change the top right portion of SharePoint?

Question

we are looking at branding our SharePoint 2013 site.

What is the way to clear out all the stuff on top right corner like NewsFeed, skydrive, share, follow?

Is it possible via designer/VS? I have changed the top left text via powershell.. Can the top right things can be cleared off using delegate controls or CSS or commenting off something in master page?

Ideally I would prefer something like a VS feature (module).

UPDATE:

Here is the answer with 3 possible solutions:- http://www.learningsharepoint.com/2012/08/09/sharepoint-2013-hide-newsfeed-skydrive-sites-deltasuitelinks/

Option 1 - Remove or Hide the Delegate Control from Master Page. Open your Master page in SharePoint 2013 Designer and look for “SuiteLinksDelegate” delegate control. In master page you would look for something like below -

<SharePoint:DelegateControl id=”ID_SuiteLinksDelegate” ControlId=”SuiteLinksDelegate” runat=”server” />

Simply Remove or Comment it out.

Option 2 - Using JavaScript to to hide the links Control.

<script language=”javascript”>
_spBodyOnLoadFunctionNames.push(“HideBrandingsuite”);
function HideBrandingsuite()
{  
document.getElementById(‘ctl00_DeltaSuiteLinks’).style.visibility = ‘hidden’;
}
</script>

Option 3 - Creating a Visual Studio Solution for Overriding SuiteLinksDelegate Delegate Control.

Answer 1

Based on Zimmergren's blogpost regarding new delegate controls in SP 2013:

Create a module with the following in the Elements file

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Elements xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/">

  <!-- DelegateControl reference to the SuiteLinksDelegate Delegate Control -->
  <Control ControlSrc="/_controltemplates/15/Zimmergren.DelegateControls/SuiteLinksDelegate.ascx"
           Id="SuiteLinksDelegate"
           Sequence="1" />

</Elements>

(Of course replace controlsrc to point to an ASCX in your solution.) You will have to play a bit with the Sequence ID to make sure your control overwrites the existing one (increase or decrease the number)

In the code behind of that ASCX you can put the following:

public partial class SuiteLinksDelegate : MySuiteLinksUserControl
{
    protected override void Render(HtmlTextWriter writer)
    {
        base.Render(writer); // Should render nothing
    }
}

Edit, for basic CSS

You can also hide it with CSS, by using the following selector

#suiteLinksBox {
    display:none;
}