Working with Menus
VB6 had cobbled support for menus. Menus were managed through the IDE's menu editor. Menus were not full-fledged components, controllable at runtime. Visual Basic .NET introduces the MainMenu and ContextMenu components.
These two components come replete with design-time and runtime capabilities. You can easily add menu items at design time using the menu editors, and at runtime using the methods and properties of these two subclasses of the Menu component.
I will briefly describe how to use the redefined Menu Designer and proceed to the technical steps for programmatically adding menu items at runtime.
Defining a MainMenu or ContextMenu
Most of the steps for implementing either MainMenu or ContextMenu are identical. I will ...
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