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Category Archives: menus
Quickly insert standard menu items on a form in C#
Many applications need standard File, Edit, Tools, and Help menus. Visual Studio provides a simple way to build standard menu items. You can then edit the menu to add new items and remove items that you don’t need. Visual Studio … Continue reading →
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Add a UAC shield to controls in C#
In Windows Vista and later versions of Windows, you are supposed to add a UAC (user access control) shield to buttons that launch processes that require privilege elevation. Unfortunately Microsoft hasn’t made this easy to do. Adding the shield to … Continue reading →
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Tagged API, C#, C# programming, controls, example, example program, graphics, menus, system, UAC, UAC sheild, user access control, user access control shield, Windows Forms programming
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Make an infinite series of menus in C#
The example Create menu items at run time with images, shortcut keys, and event handlers in C# explains how to create menu items at run time. This example uses that technique to add new menu items to any submenu as … Continue reading →
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Create menu items at run time with images, shortcut keys, and event handlers in C#
This example shows how you can create menu items at run time. The following code adds new menu items to the Tools menu when the program starts. // Create some tool menu items. private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e) { … Continue reading →
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Make menus at run time for a WPF application in C#
This example shows how you can make menus at runtime and add them to a WPF application. Normally you build a WPF program’s user interface at design time using a XAML editor, but anything you can do in XAML you … Continue reading →
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Make owner drawn menus in C#
It’s easiest to use menus with the default appearance, but you can make owner drawn menus if you want. It’s not hard, but you need to follow several steps. First, at design time, set the MenuItem control’s OwnerDraw property to … Continue reading →
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Make a modal context menu in C#
This example shows how you can make a modal context menu. Normally when a context menu appears, the user can press Esc or can click off of the menu to make it disappear. Some while ago, someone asked me whether … Continue reading →
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Tagged C#, C# programming, context menu, contextmenu, example, example program, forms, menus, modal context menu, modal form, modal menu, Windows Forms programming
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Make menu items behave like check boxes in C#
Making menu items behave like check boxes is a lot easier than making them behave like radio buttons (see Make menu items act like radio buttons in C#). Simply set the menu item’s CheckOnClick property to true and it will … Continue reading →
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Make toolstrip buttons act like radio buttons in C#
Sometimes it is useful to make toolstrip buttons behave like radio buttons so the user can pick only one of a set of buttons. This example lets you pick one of the shape tools or the select (arrow button) and … Continue reading →
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Make menu items act like radio buttons in C#
This example shows how to make menu items behave like radio buttons in a radio button group. When you select one item, it displays a check mark and the others don’t. The key is the following CheckMenuItem method. // Uncheck … Continue reading →
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