Menus

Compiling

Running

After launching the application, you will see a window displayed with a similar appearance to the one above. The main window contains a main menu with two entries (File and Format).

The main window also has a blue LABEL that contains a context menu, that is the clone of "Format" in the main menu. Right click on the LABEL and a context menu will appear

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Under the Hood

This application shows how to create a main menu and how to associate a context menu to a control (here to a LABEL). More information regarding the use of menus, is available here .

This sample uses the following classes:

• FORM
• CONTEXT_MENU
• MAIN_MENU
• MENU_ITEM
• EVENT_HANDLER
• LABEL

Notes

This sample is translated from the example located in the QuickStart\winforms\samples\menus subdirectory of the .NET Framework SDK samples directory of Microsoft Visual Studio.NET.