Creating a Menu

Note

The Resource View Window is not available in Express editions.

To create a standard menu

  1. From the View menu, click on Resource View and then right-click on the Menu heading and choose Add Resource. Choose Menu.

  2. Select the New Item box (the rectangle that contains "Type Here") on the menu bar.

    New Item Box

    Visual Studio Menu Editor New Item Box

  3. Type a name for your new menu, for example, "File".

    The text you type appears in both the Menu editor and in the Caption box in the Properties Window. You can edit the properties for your new menu in either location.

    Once you have given your new menu a name on the menu bar, the new-item box shifts to the right (to allow you to add another menu), and another new-item box opens below your first menu so you can add menu commands to it.

    New Item Box with Focus Shifted After You Type Menu Name

    Expanded New Item Box

    Note

    To create a single-item menu on the menu bar, set the Popup property to False.

For information on adding resources to managed projects, please see Resources in Applications in the .NET Framework Developer's Guide. For information on manually adding resource files to managed projects, accessing resources, displaying static resources, and assigning resources strings to properties, see Walkthrough: Localizing Windows Forms and Walkthrough: Using Resources for Localization with ASP.NET.

Requirements

Win32

See Also

Reference

Menu Editor

Menus