70-526 MCTS

Create and configure menus

Almost every GUI application written for Windows requires a menu system of some sort. There are two menu controls supplied with .NET 2.0.

  • MenuStrip - this lets you build a menu that lives underneath the title panel.

  • ContextMenuStrip - this lets you build a context-sensitive menu, one that appears whenever you right-click on something that has a context sensitive menu attached to it.

    In the screen shot of notepad above, both types of menu can be seen. The normal menu that you associate with a windows application, is located below the title panel, and the context menu appears when you right-click in the area that you type in.

    Typically a MenuStrip is used to give access to functionality common to the whole application.

    A ContextMenuStrip is used to give access to a focused area of functionality.

    Both of these controls are derived either directly or indirectly from the ToolStrip control.

    Exam Sections

  • ToolStrip Overview - (not one of the headings though)

  • Create and configure a MenuStrip component on a Windows Form.

  • Change the displayed menu structure programmatically.

  • Create and configure the ContextMenuStrip component on a Windows Form.

    MSDN references

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