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Visually Building a Menu System

To wrap up our look at the Windows Forms visual designer tools and move on to some more illustra-

tive examples, activate the Forms designer window, locate the Toolbox window of Visual Studio

2008, and find the MenuStrip control within the Menus & Toolbars node (see Figure 27-8).

Figure 27-8.

The Toolbox window displays the Windows Forms controls that may be added to your

designer surface.

Drag a MenuStrip control onto the top of your Forms designer. Notice that Visual Studio

responds by activating the menu editor. If you look closely at this editor, you will notice a (very)

small triangle on the top-right of the control. If you click this icon, you will open a context-sensitive

inline editor that allows you to make numerous property settings at once (be aware that many Win-

dows Forms controls have similar inline editors). Just to see an example, click the Insert Standard

Items option, as shown in Figure 27-9.

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