Andy De George
c0ba284473
* Merge winforms framework content to working branch (#14) * Breadcrumb / TOC / Move net5 to net folder (#15) * change path from net5 to net * Mess with bread/toc * Mess with bread/toc * Mess with bread/toc * Mess with bread/toc * Mess with bread/toc * Mess with bread/toc * Mess with bread/toc * Mess with bread/toc * Mess with bread/toc * Mess with bread/toc * Mess with bread/toc * Mess with bread/toc * Mess with bread/toc * Mess with bread/toc * Add .net 5 winforms placeholder article (#16) * added some metadata and adjusted net5 placeholder * corrections * corrections * corrections * Test1 * Swapping landing page vs concept * fix links * Fix links * Fix desc
2.2 KiB
title, ms.date, f1_keywords, helpviewer_keywords, ms.assetid
| title | ms.date | f1_keywords | helpviewer_keywords | ms.assetid | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ContextMenu Component Overview | 03/30/2017 |
|
|
49d6398f-d3c4-4679-84fa-1de07b68b05e |
ContextMenu Component Overview (Windows Forms)
Important
Although xref:System.Windows.Forms.MenuStrip and xref:System.Windows.Forms.ContextMenuStrip replace and add functionality to the xref:System.Windows.Forms.MainMenu and xref:System.Windows.Forms.ContextMenu controls of previous versions, xref:System.Windows.Forms.MainMenu and xref:System.Windows.Forms.ContextMenu are retained for both backward compatibility and future use if you choose.
With the Windows Forms xref:System.Windows.Forms.ContextMenu component, you can provide users with an easily accessible shortcut menu of frequently used commands that are associated with the selected object. The items in a shortcut menu are frequently a subset of the items from main menus that appear elsewhere in the application. A user can typically access a shortcut menu by right-clicking the mouse. On Windows Forms, shortcut menus are associated with controls.
Key Properties
You can associate a shortcut menu with a control by setting the control's xref:System.Windows.Forms.Control.ContextMenu%2A property to the xref:System.Windows.Forms.ContextMenu component. A single shortcut menu can be associated with multiple controls, but each control can have only one shortcut menu.
The key property of the xref:System.Windows.Forms.ContextMenu component is the xref:System.Windows.Forms.Menu.MenuItems%2A property. You can add menu items by programmatically creating xref:System.Windows.Forms.MenuItem objects and adding them to the xref:System.Windows.Forms.Menu.MenuItemCollection of the shortcut menu. Because the items in a shortcut menu are usually drawn from other menus, you will most frequently add items to a shortcut menu by copying them.