MenuItem.Text Property

When you specify a caption for your menu item, you can also specify an access key by placing an '&' before the character to be used as the access key. For example, to specify the "F" in "File" as an access key, you would specify the caption for the menu item as "&File". You can use this feature to provide keyboard navigation for your menus.

Setting this property to "-" causes your menu item to be displayed as a separator (a horizontal line) rather than a standard menu item.

The following code example creates a menu item, sets the caption, assigns a shortcut key, makes the menu item visible, and shows the shortcut key display for the menu item. The example requires that a MenuItem has been created that is named menuItem1.

Public Sub SetupMyMenuItem()
     ' Set the caption for the menu item.
     menuItem1.Text = "&New" 
     ' Assign a shortcut key.
     menuItem1.Shortcut = Shortcut.CtrlN
     ' Make the menu item visible.
     menuItem1.Visible = True 
     ' Display the shortcut key combination.
     menuItem1.ShowShortcut = True 
 End Sub

.NET Framework

.NET Framework Client Profile

Windows 8, Windows Server 2012, Windows 7, Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 (Server Core Role not supported), Windows Server 2008 R2 (Server Core Role supported with SP1 or later; Itanium not supported)

The .NET Framework does not support all versions of every platform. For a list of the supported versions, see .NET Framework System Requirements.

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