Common Tasks with Commands, Menus, and Toolbars

Visual Studio 2010

A menu contains commands and command groups. Every command structure in the Visual Studio integrated development environment (IDE) starts with a menu. This section describes some common Visual Studio menu scenarios in which you may want to create your own custom menus.

In This Section

How to: Create Reusable Groups of Buttons: Describes how to group command items so that they can be included on multiple menus.
How to: Create and Handle Commands in VSPackages (C#): Describes how to add a command to an existing menu and handle it in a VSPackage.
How to: Create Menus, SubMenus, and Shortcut Menus: Describes how to create different types of menus.
How to: Create Toolbars in the IDE: Describes how to create a toolbar on the IDE.
How to: Create Toolbars for Tool Windows: Describes how to create a toolbar on a tool window.
How to: Add Icons to Commands on Toolbars: Describes how to add an icon to a command on both a toolbar and a menu.
How to: Add Menu Controllers to Toolbars: Describes how to create a toolbar button with a drop-down arrow next to it, which opens a drop-down menu.
How to: Dynamically Add Menu Items: Describes how to create a dynamic menu list such as a Most Recently Used (MRU) list.
How to: Change the Text of a Menu Command: Describes the use of the TextChanges flag to enable a menu item to be changed dynamically.
How to: Change the Appearance of a Command: Describes how to dynamically enable or disable a command.
How to: Update the User Interface: Describes how to force an update of the user interface to reflect recent changes.

Related Sections

How VSPackages Add User Interface Elements to the IDE: Describes how the Visual Studio architecture enables a VSPackage to add UI elements to the IDE.
Commands, Menus, and Toolbars: Explains how to create a UI that includes menus, toolbars, and command combo boxes.