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MenuItem Constructor (String, String)

Initializes a new instance of the MenuItem class using the specified menu text and value.

Namespace:  System.Web.UI.WebControls
Assembly:  System.Web (in System.Web.dll)

public:
MenuItem(
	String^ text, 
	String^ value
)

Parameters

text
Type: System::String

The text displayed for a menu item in a Menu control.

value
Type: System::String

The supplemental data associated with the menu item, such as data used for handling postback events.

Use this constructor to create a new instance of the MenuItem class using the menu text and value specified by the text and value parameters, respectively.

The following table shows initial property values for an instance of the MenuItem class.

Property

Initial value

Text

The value of the text parameter.

Value

The value of the value parameter.

This constructor is commonly used when dynamically populating the Items collection of a Menu control or the ChildItems collection of a MenuItem object.

The following example demonstrates how to use this constructor to create a new instance of the MenuItem class. The MenuItem object is then used to dynamically populate the menu items in a Menu control.

No code example is currently available or this language may not be supported.

Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP SP2, Windows XP Media Center Edition, Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, Windows XP Starter Edition, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2000 SP4, Windows Millennium Edition, Windows 98

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

.NET Framework

Supported in: 3.5, 3.0, 2.0
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