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• How do menu shortcuts work?

  The focused control's ProcessCmdKey will be called first. 1) The Control class implementation of this method will check if there is a ContextMenu associated with the Control and if so let the context menu handle the shortcut. 2) If not handled, the...

• How do I clone menus, insert menus, use popup menus, etc.

  Check out G. G. Arun Ganesh's article Working with Menus in C# on C# Corner . Contributed from George Shepherd's Windows Forms FAQ

• How do I know when a menu is closed or started so I can refresh the status bar?

  There are MenuComplete and MenuStart events in the Form that will inform you of the corresponding menu events in the Form. Contributed from George Shepherd's Windows Forms FAQ

• How do I update a menu item's enabled state during an Idle event?

  This used to be a very useful feature in MFC. You can do something similar with the System.Windows.Forms.Application.Idle event which will get fired when the app becomes Idle. Where you could parse through all the menu items and update their states. Contributed...

• How do I create a Window menu that shows a list of open child forms?

  Create a "Window" menu in your MDI parent form's menu and then drop another MenuItem into it, setting its MdiList property to true. It will then expand to show all the available MDI children during runtime. Contributed from George Shepherd's...

• How do I work around menu shortcuts showing up incorrectly when the user uses Ctrl+Number?

  When you assign Ctrl1, Ctrl2, etc. as shortcuts for MenuItems they show up as Ctrl+D1, Ctrl+D2. This can be worked around by creating and adding the menuitem through code as demonstrated below: [C#] //Create the menuitem MenuItem mymenuItem = new MenuItem...

• How do I add a Separator in a menu?

  contextmenu.MenuItems.Add("-"); Contributed from George Shepherd's Windows Forms FAQ

• How do I enable the mnemonics (underline) being displayed when an application is launched?

  Usually the underline appears only after you press the Alt Key, but you can enable it by changing the Operating System Settings. On Windows XP, Right Click Desktop to bring up the Display Properties Dialog and then choose Appearance tab and then the Effects...

• How do I add icons to items in a Menu?

  You need to implement an owner drawn menu to add icons to it. Take a look at the Ownerdraw menuitems sample on .netPlus . Contributed from George Shepherd's Windows Forms FAQ