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How to: Provide Standard Menu Items to a Form
03/30/2017
.net-framework
dotnet-winforms
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toolbars [Windows Forms]
menu items, standard
ToolStrip control [Windows Forms]
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How to: Provide Standard Menu Items to a Form

You can provide a standard menu for your forms with the xref:System.Windows.Forms.MenuStrip control.

There is extensive support for this feature in [!INCLUDEvsprvs].

Also see Walkthrough: Providing Standard Menu Items to a Form.

Example

The following code example demonstrates how to use a xref:System.Windows.Forms.MenuStrip control to create a form with a standard menu. Menu item selections are displayed in a xref:System.Windows.Forms.StatusStrip control.

[!code-csharpSystem.Windows.Forms.ToolStrip.StandardMenu#1] [!code-vbSystem.Windows.Forms.ToolStrip.StandardMenu#1]

Compiling the Code

This example requires:

  • References to the System, System.Drawing and System.Windows.Forms assemblies.

For information about building this example from the command line for [!INCLUDEvbprvb] or [!INCLUDEcsprcs], see Building from the Command Line or Command-line Building With csc.exe. You can also build this example in [!INCLUDEvsprvs] by pasting the code into a new project. Also see How to: Compile and Run a Complete Windows Forms Code Example Using Visual Studio.

See Also

xref:System.Windows.Forms.MenuStrip
xref:System.Windows.Forms.ToolStrip
xref:System.Windows.Forms.StatusStrip
MenuStrip Control