WinForms: Menus

Demonstrates simple use of menus in Windows applications.

Featured Highlights

This demo allows you to test the MainMenu control, in the context of a simple MDI application. The sample application uses most of the design-time features of the MainMenu control, including menu merging, and menu events (Popup, Select, and Click events). You can also investigate the use of the MdiList, RadioCheck, and Checked properties. In addition, the demonstration shows how to handle multiple events, display a status bar with information about menu items, and more.

Requirements

Requires the Trial or Release version of Visual Studio .NET Professional (or greater).

Running the Sample

This example doesn't include much code, but does show off several interesting features of menus and toolbars in Windows applications.

For example:

Last Update: 7 July 2002