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Menus - Custom menus 

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Title / Updated Author Score  
Customizing Menu Shortcuts
Updated: 21 Oct 2008
Sample that allows the user to customize the shortcuts assigned to menu items.
C#, .NET3.5, Visual-Studio (VS2008), LINQ, Dev, Design
 
Günther M. FOIDL 5.00
A Powerfull Ownerdraw Menu
Updated: 23 Oct 2001
An XP-style ownerdrawn menu with support for background images and icon shadow.
VC6, Win2K, MFC, Dev
 
Neil Yao 4.97
Owner Drawn Menu with Icons, Titles and Shading
Updated: 5 Dec 2003
An easy use of owner drawn menu with variable styles like new Office products with titles, shading and icons.
VC6, VC7, VC7.1, Win2K, WinXP, MFC, VS.NET2003, Dev
 
Bruno Podetti 4.96
A Revolutionary New Approach to Custom Drawn Menus
Updated: 26 May 2003
A new and unique approach to the perennial problem of how to change the default appearance of Windows menus
VC6, Win2K, WinXP, MFC, Dev
 
.dan.g. 4.94
CMenuXP - The Office XP Style Menu
Updated: 13 Jul 2003
Owner drawn menu with the Office XP visual style
VC6, VC7, Win2K, WinXP, MFC, Dev
 
Jean-Michel LE FOL 4.93
Cool Owner Drawn Menus with Bitmaps - Version 3.03
Updated: 28 Apr 2002
This class implements an owner drawn menu class that mimics the menu style used in XP, Office and Visual C++
VC6, MFC, Dev
 
Brent Corkum 4.92
A ToolBarCtrl Based Menubar Control
Updated: 3 Dec 2001
A ToolBarCtrl based menubar control using CMenuXP
VC6, Win2K, WinXP, MFC, Dev
 
Neil Yao 4.83
Super Context Menu Strip
Updated: 5 Oct 2009
How to build a context menu that displays any group of controls
C#, Windows, .NET, Dev, Design
 
Hany Badrous 4.73
Menu Bitmaps from Minimal Source Code
Updated: 1 Feb 2002
Add bitmaps to your menus easily and with very little source code.
VC6, VC7, MFC, Dev
 
Warren Gardner 4.61
Simple Menus That Display Icons - Minimalistic Approach
Updated: 20 Jan 2008
A super-modest approach to owner-drawn menus.
VC6, VC8.0, Win2K, WinXP, MFC, VS2005, Dev
 
Alex Cohn 4.31
Custom Web Menu with Embedded Resources
Updated: 30 Mar 2010
This is a free custom web menu with Tigra menu (free JavaScript menu) embedded.
C#, .NET, ASP.NET
 
R@je$h 4.25
Custom Menus Made Easy
Updated: 16 Jul 2006
An easy way to make your menus stand out.
VB, Windows, .NET, VS2005, Dev
 
iwdu150 4.00
Owner drawn menu with bitmaps, icons, and colors
Updated: 8 Sep 2002
Use application resources to create your owner drawn menu. 
C++/CLI, VC6, .NET, WinXP, MFC, Dev
 
chia hung liu 3.94
Popup menu with nice title
Updated: 2 Apr 2002
Put a nice title above your popup menus
VC6, VC7, Win2K, WinXP, Visual-Studio, MFC, Dev
 
Arthur Westerman 3.82
Owner Drawn Menu with Icons, Fade 2D-3D Horizontal/Vertical
Updated: 29 Nov 2003
This article describes an owner drawn menu with icons, fade 2D-3D horizontal/vertical.
VC6, Windows, MFC, Dev
 
Dascalescu Romy 3.81
Reduced context menus
Updated: 5 Nov 2002
This code provides a simple way to remove disabled items from a context menu.
VC6, Win2K, WinXP, MFC, Dev
 
S Fewings 3.65
Tear-off menus
Updated: 4 Dec 2003
See how to have tear-off menus in your program.
VC6, WinXP, MFC, Dev
 
Alexander Bischofberger 3.16
Modifying the System Menu
Updated: 26 Jan 2007
Add menu items to, and learn how to handle the system menu
C++, Windows, Visual-Studio, MFC, Dev
 
John Simmons / outlaw programmer 3.14

Menus & Toolbars - Docking bars 

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Title / Updated Author Score  
A Serious Outlook Style Navigation Pane Control
Updated: 15 Nov 2010
A quality rendered Outlook style navigation pane control
C#, VB, Windows, .NET, Office, Architect, Dev, WinForm
 
HawVie 4.95
BarTender - Group your contents
Updated: 25 Apr 2006
An Outlook bar like control with generic contents and animation effects.
C#, .NET1.1, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, GDI+, VS.NET2003, Dev, WinForm
 
Robert Rohde 4.77
OutlookBar: A Simplified Outlook Style Sidebar Control
Updated: 10 Nov 2006
An article on using and writing a user control resembling one of Outlook's sidebar controls.
C#, .NET2.0, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, VS2005, Dev, WinForm
 
Herre Kuijpers 4.74
A Docking control that can be dragged and resized by the user
Updated: 22 Oct 2001
This control allows the user to resize and drag your docking control to different form edges
C#, Windows, .NET, Visual-Studio, Dev
 
Phil Wright 4.55

Menus - General 

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Title / Updated Author Score  
Dynamic Items
Updated: 24 Feb 2003
A class and an easy way to dynamically add items stored in a file to a menu
VC6, Win2K, MFC, Dev
 
David Excoffier 4.92
Cool Vista-style Menu
Updated: 3 Jan 2009
Cool Vista style menu in your .NET applications
C#2.0, Windows, .NET3.0, GDI+, Dev
 
Nedim Sabic 4.92
An examination of menus from a beginner's point of view
Updated: 22 Jun 2004
A discussion of the OS menu object from a beginner's viewpoint. I take you through the basics to a more advanced understanding of menus and how to interact with them from code.
VC6, Win2K, WinXP, Visual-Studio, MFC, Dev
 
Roger Allen 4.91
Menu Images using C# and IExtenderProvider - a better mousetrap!
Updated: 24 Nov 2002
How to extend the standard menus to support icons using IExtender in C#.
C#, .NET1.0, WinXP, Dev
 
Chris Beckett 4.90
A Magical Edit Menu Manager
Updated: 22 Feb 2004
A magical edit menu that works with no connections to the rest of your project.
C#, Windows, .NET1.0, Dev
 
Tom Clement 4.90
Cheat's Outlook Bar
Updated: 3 Mar 2005
An alternative "minimal-code" Outlook-style menu bar.
C#, Windows, .NET, Visual-Studio, GDI+, Dev
 
Gary Perkin 4.87
Flat VS.NET Style Menus - Even on Windows 98
Updated: 3 Sep 2003
Flat VS.NET style menus - Even on Windows 98
VB, .NET1.1, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, VS.NET2003, Dev
 
Giancarlo Aguilera 4.82
Command switchboard for Windows Forms
Updated: 12 Jul 2007
Switchboard component for user interface commands with design time support
C#2.0, Windows, .NET2.0, VS2005, Dev
 
B.Sundby 4.81
MenuItem Extender - add images and font support to your menu
Updated: 29 Feb 2004
An extender provider component that provides Image and Font properties to a MenuItem class.
C#, .NET1.0, .NET1.1, Win2K, WinXP, VS.NET2003, Dev
 
Jevgenij Pankov 4.79
Extended Interface for Status Message
Updated: 8 Apr 2002
Adding an extended property to Menus in order to provide automatic statusbar messages as the user chooses different menu options.
C#, Windows, .NET1.0, Dev
 
psdavis 4.77
Owner drawn menus in two lines of code
Updated: 4 Feb 2005
Another method of implementing owner drawn menus, which only requires two lines of code by you the coder.
VC6, Win2K, WinXP, MFC, Dev
 
Roger Allen 4.76
Command Routing for Popup Menus
Updated: 22 Aug 2000
Handle grayed/disabled/checked menu items using the familiar OnUpdate interface
VC6, Win2K, Visual-Studio, MFC, Dev
 
Noel Dillabough 4.75
Office 2003 Menus
Updated: 23 Feb 2004
A component to change the look of the menus to that of Office 2003
C#, Windows, .NET1.1, VS.NET2003, Dev
 
Mohammed Halabi 4.73
FileSelect - Hassle Free Implementation of the File Menu
Updated: 4 May 2009
A WinForms user control that implements the details of file handling commands for any document-centric application
C#2.0, C#3.0, Windows, .NET2.0, .NET3.0, .NET3.5, VS2005, VS2008, Architect, Dev, WinForm
 
peterchen 4.71
Gradient Menus in MFC
Updated: 14 May 2000
Create Popup menus in MFC with a gradient and text on the left side
VC6, Win2K, MFC, Dev
 
Jim Koornneef 4.71
MenuEx - full image and color support for Windows Forms Menus using C#
Updated: 13 Jul 2005
A component suite to implement full owner-draw MenuItem support, including the painting of Menu Bars.
C#, .NET1.1, Win2K, WinXP, GDI+, VS.NET2003, Dev, WinForm
 
Jonathan Lynas 4.70
Iconized MenuItem
Updated: 28 Nov 2005
How to implement a full-featured iconized menu item in C#.
C#, Windows, .NET, Visual-Studio, Dev
 
Nikita D. Sinelnikoff 4.70
Working with OwnerDraw Menus in VB.NET
Updated: 17 Nov 2003
This article describes the processes involved with using owner draw menu items
VB, Windows, .NET1.0, Dev
 
Greg Osborne 4.68
XPrintHeader - Choose page header format using "More like this" popup menus
Updated: 30 Jul 2003
XPrintHeader implements a dialog that allows the user to choose the formatting for a page header by dynamically created popup menus.
VC6, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, MFC, Dev
 
Hans Dietrich 4.65
Dual Menus: Add a Left-click Menu to your Application's Tray Icon
Updated: 27 Sep 2007
This article will show you a trick to spoof a right-click on your tray icon to support dual contextual menus for your application's NotifyIcon.
C#, Windows, .NET, Visual-Studio, Dev
 
chaiguy1337 4.64
An XML-Driven Menu Strip
Updated: 16 Apr 2007
In this article, I'm going to show how to generate a dynamic MenuStrip (.NET 2.0's replacement of the MainMenu control) using recursion in C#. The MenuStrip will be based on XML data which contains all the details about the generated Menu.
C#2.0, .NET2.0, WinXP, Vista, VS2005, Dev
 
Bryan Ray 4.62
Display any usercontrol as a popup menu
Updated: 1 May 2005
This article introduces a little class which lets you show any usercontrol in XP style popup menu.
C#, VB, Windows, .NET1.1, VS.NET2003, Dev, WinForm
 
Pascal Ganaye 4.56
Dynamic Menu Based on Database
Updated: 10 Nov 2005
A dynamic personal menu for applications based on the information in database.
VB, Windows, .NET, Visual-Studio, Dev
 
Daniel Presman 4.50
Changing the number of items that appear in the Most Recently Used List (MRU)
Updated: 9 Apr 2003
How to change the number of items that appear in the Most Recently Used List (MRU).
VC6, VC7, Visual-Studio, MFC, Dev
 
Jason Walsh 4.50
Adding icons to menus in VB.NET
Updated: 24 Jun 2002
A simple extension of the menu control that displays icons.
VB, Windows, .NET1.0, Dev
 
Retana Padilla 4.50
Almost Office2003 - Getting rid of the margin in MenuItems
Updated: 10 Mar 2006
A tutorial on using the IExtenderProvider.
C#, .NET1.1, WinXP, VS.NET2003, Dev
 
Julian Ott 4.48
Subclassed System Menu
Updated: 17 Feb 2004
Implementation of a subclassed system menu for non standard UIs.
VB, .NET1.0, .NET1.1, VS.NET2003, Dev
 
Mark Woan 4.45
Add serialization support to CMenu
Updated: 4 Dec 2001
The CMenu class is a great help when it comes to manipulating menus, but unfortunately it doesn't implement serialization. CSerializableMenu is a subclass of CMenu that provides serialization support.
VC6, Win2K, WinXP, Visual-Studio, MFC, Dev
 
Sidney Chong 4.44
Most Recently Used (MRU) Component
Updated: 5 Nov 2004
A Most Recently Used component written in C#.
C#, .NET1.0, Win2K, WinXP, Dev, WinForm
 
Tim Almdal 4.38
Transparent Menu
Updated: 8 Jun 2004
An article on creating transparent menus for your applications
VC6, VC7, Win2K, WinXP, MFC, Dev
 
Derick Cyril Thomas 4.37
VB.NET-XML based Dynamic Menu Component using Recursion Technique
Updated: 15 Jan 2007
Generating Dynamic Menus (using recursion) in VB.NET using XML data
VB, XML, Windows, .NET2.0, VS2005, Dev
 
Sundar Kasthuri 4.33
Binding Sitemaps with Menu Control Based on User Privilege at Runtime
Updated: 22 May 2009
Binding sitemaps with menu control based on user privilege at runtime
C# (C#2.0), XML, .NET (.NET2.0), ASP.NET, Dev
 
ahmad.msn 4.33
MRU Menu Class Revisited
Updated: 19 Jun 2010
Class for automating the handling of Most Recently Used files in a MenuStrip.
VB9.0, VB10, VB.NET, .NET3.5, Dev
 
chad_ross 4.24
Add User Shortcuts To Files/URLs to Application Menus
Updated: 22 Nov 2006
.NET Class that loads a list of files/URLs and displays them in the menu of Windows Forms application
C#2.0, Windows, .NET2.0, VS2005, Dev
 
Chris Hambleton 4.20
Insert your Logo between caption bar and menu bar
Updated: 16 Jan 2000
Give your apps a unique look by adding a logo to your menu.
VC6, MFC, Dev
 
Wooseok Seo 4.17
Populating Menu Control in ASP.NET 2.0 - using different data sources
Updated: 7 Oct 2005
An article on how to populate the Menu control in ASP.NET 2.0 using different data sources.
C#, Windows, .NET, Visual-Studio, Dev
 
azamsharp 4.15
How to create owner drawn menus - Step by Step
Updated: 16 May 2004
This tutorial explains how to create owner drawn menus step by step
VC6, VC7, VC7.1, WinXP, Visual-Studio, MFC, Dev
 
Kevin Stumpf 4.14
Getting a Handler Function to a Specific Popup Menu
Updated: 2 Feb 2006
This article explains how to get a call to a handler, when a specific popup-menu is about to be opened.
C++, Windows, Visual-Studio, MFC, Dev
 
Ohad Redlich 4.12
Switching language of Menu using C# and XML
Updated: 17 Aug 2005
Switching the language of a menu.
C#, XML, .NET1.1, Win2K, WinXP, VS.NET2003, Dev, WinForm
 
Phan Tai Phu 4.07
MRU Menu Class
Updated: 8 May 2004
MRU Menu class is basically an ArrayList that will automatically populate a MenuItem in a MainMenu control. It will display the 5 most recent entries and exposes a Click event for you to respond to. You can also save the list to a file with the provided properties.
VB, Windows, .NET1.0, Dev
 
chad_ross 4.00
Grouped-Checkable-Menus for Composite-Criteria-Parameters
Updated: 29 Nov 2011
A menu-based UI filtering solution in which the first level will show the filtering criteria and the next levels will give the optional values in more and more granular resolution options.
C#4.0, .NET, WPF, Dev
 
ntg123 4.00
Fading Javascript Menu
Updated: 19 Aug 2009
How to implement a Fading Javascript Menu
Javascript, Dev, eCommerce
 
Andrew S. Kloos 4.00
Improvement of the .NET Menu Style class
Updated: 14 Jan 2003
This is an improvement by Francesco Natali over an improvement by Sajith M of the "Visual Studio .NET Menu Style" by Carlos H. Perez
C#, .NET1.0, Win2K, WinXP, Dev
 
Francesco Natali 3.88
Adding Images to Menu
Updated: 14 Nov 2002
Adding images to MenuItems
C#, .NET1.0, Win2K, WinXP, Dev
 
SeeSharp 3.86
Issues with popup menu owned by a non CFrameWnd derived class
Updated: 2 Nov 2000
How to handle UpdateCommandUI messages for menus not owned by CFrameWnd windows
VC6, Win2K, Visual-Studio, MFC, Dev
 
Cheeran Santhosh 3.84
A simple PerformanceCounter StatusStripItem
Updated: 19 Feb 2007
An article about how to use a PerformanceCounter as a small chart in a status strip.
C#2.0, Windows, .NET2.0, VS2005, Dev
 
don!marco 3.83
ActionMenuStrip/OptionMenuS...
Updated: 7 Jun 2006
MenuStrips automatically filled using enums as templates.
C#, Windows, .NET2.0, VS2005, Dev
 
OrlandoCurioso 3.77
Creating and Installing Internet Explorer Context Menu using C#
Updated: 10 Feb 2008
Add an Internet Explorer context menu using an installer class
C# (C#1.0, C#2.0, C#3.0), Javascript, Windows (WinXP, Win2003, Vista), Win32, Visual-Studio (VS2005), Dev
 
Riad MS Afyouni 3.67
CmenuModifier - An Owner Draw Image Menu
Updated: 3 Jun 2008
CmenuModifier - an owner draw image menu
C++, Windows (Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, Vista), WinMobile, MFC
 
includeh10 3.64
Merging Two Menus
Updated: 15 Nov 2001
This function will merge two menues
VC6, Win2K, Visual-Studio, MFC, Dev
 
Oskar Wieland 3.52
Dynamic Menu Creation
Updated: 24 Sep 2002
Dynamically create menus whose structure is defined in an Access database.
C#, .NET1.0, Win2K, WinXP, Dev
 
Marc Clifton, Martin Robins 3.44
A Simple way to switch from one menu set to another
Updated: 5 Jun 2002
Replace your current menus with another set of menus with this function
VC6, VC7, Win2K, WinXP, Visual-Studio, MFC, Dev
 
dazinith 3.33
LAN Messenger
Updated: 19 Aug 2004
A tool for communicating with the computers across the network.
VB, .NET1.0, .NET1.1, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, Dev
 
kennedy_franklin 3.21
Delete Sub Menu
Updated: 27 Apr 2004
How to add delete submenu to the file menu of Document/View program in VC++.
VC6, VC7, VC7.1, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, Visual-Studio, MFC, Dev
 
Priyank Bolia 3.13
Menu sidebar made easy
Updated: 1 Apr 2005
A menu class with sidebar and color support.
VC6, Windows, MFC, Dev
 
Nisamudheen 3.08
Dynamic submenus
Updated: 20 Mar 2000
Some handy functions for adding and deleting submenus and menuitems in runtime
VC6, MFC, Dev
 
Anneke Sicherer-Roetman 3.05
Dynamically Build Your Menu and/or Toolbar
Updated: 12 May 2005
Build a menu and/or a toolbar dynamically without using resource files (well, almost).
VC6, Win2K, WinXP, MFC, Dev
 
John Simmons / outlaw programmer 3.03
A Transparent menu synchronizing system
Updated: 23 Feb 2004
An article about menu enable/disable management in an semi-automated way.
VC6, VC7, Win2K, WinXP, Visual-Studio, MFC, Dev
 
vcepa 3.00
Dynamic Menu Strip
Updated: 8 Oct 2008
This article will show you how to create the items (parents and children) in a MenuStrip, dynamically, from a single database table.
C#, Windows, .NET, LINQ, Dev
 
Harvey Saayman 3.00
A Pretty Good Menu Cloner
Updated: 3 Nov 2009
Allows one to easily clone a menu item and demostrates how to clone a component's callback handlers
C# (C#3.0), Windows, .NET (.NET3.5), Dev
 
jmertus 3.00
Tooltips for Menu Item and popup menuitem
Updated: 19 Nov 2003
Simple and best way to add tooltips to the menu items. All you have to do is simply include the header file and call Create and hook the WM_MENUSELECT message.
VC6, VC7, VC7.1, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, MFC, Dev
 
venu8000 2.93
ButtonMenu - a.k.a. A Simple Hack For A Nice GUI
Updated: 6 Jun 2006
Developing a nice menu look using only C#
C#, Windows, .NET, Visual-Studio, Dev
 
lbenini 2.85
CMenuEx - Ownerdrawn Menu
Updated: 27 Aug 2004
An easy-to-use ownerdrawn menu, derived from CMenu.
VC7.1, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, MFC, VS.NET2003, Dev
 
C. Bügenburg 2.83
CMenuEX - A bitmap menu class
Updated: 4 Jan 2001
Implementing an Ownerdrawn menu
VC6, Win2K, MFC, Dev
 
Norm .net 2.76
Enhancements for Jim Koornneef 's CGradientMenu class
Updated: 27 Oct 2004
Enhancements for Jim Koornneef 's GradientMenu class on CodeProject
C++, Windows, Visual-Studio, MFC, Dev
 
Michael Heber 2.10
A higher fidelity mimic of flat menu to VS.NET 2003 - Unedited
Updated: 7 Aug 2007
Mimic the VS.NET 2003 menu style by improving the existing work
C#1.0, Windows, .NET1.1, VS.NET2003, Dev
 
ZhaoRuFei 2.09
How to use popup-menu to simulate menu assigned to window? - Unedited
Updated: 25 Oct 2005
for the window skined with no-regular region, the menu assigned to window is difficult to be placed on it's normal location, so it does not work. I will introduce to you a way that use popup-menu to simulate menu assigned to window.
VC6, VC7, VC7.1, Win2K, WinXP, MFC, VS.NET2003, Dev
 
goodboyws 1.04
Universal menu command handle pattern - Unedited
Updated: 8 Oct 2006
Universal menu command handle pattern
C#1.0, Windows, .NET1.1, VS.NET2003, Dev
 
fu yuans 1.00

Menus and Toolbars 

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Title / Updated Author Score  
An easy way to add a Ribbon Panel Office 2007 style
Updated: 18 Apr 2007
GNU code of RibbonPanel, free software for personal and nonlucrative use, for rest please contact me
C#, VB8.0, .NET2.0, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, Vista, VS2005, Dev, Design, WinForm
 
Juan Pablo G.C. 4.93
Wobbly Menu - An Inspiration from iPhone
Updated: 17 Mar 2010
iPhone like menu system and wobbly re-arrangement technique with a useful sample application
VB (VB.NET), Windows (WinXP, Vista, Win7), GDI+, Dev, WinForm
 
Thulasee Shan 4.88
MozBar
Updated: 29 Sep 2005
A flexible toolbar very much like the toolbar in FireFox Options dialog.
C#, .NET, Win2K, WinXP, Visual-Studio, GDI+, Dev
 
Patrik Bohman 4.86
How to Support the Ribbon and a Menu in the Same Executable
Updated: 20 Jan 2011
You can provide a Ribbon in Windows 7, but still support menu input, while only releasing one executable.
C++, WinXP, Win2003, Vista, Win2008, Win7, Win2008-R2, Win32, Visual-Studio (VS2010), COM, Dev, menu, UI, Windows7, software, VisualStudio
 
Paul M. Parks 4.80
Another ToolBox Control
Updated: 19 Oct 2005
Another Visual Studio like ToolBox control.
C#, .NET1.1, Win2K, WinXP, GDI+, VS.NET2003, Dev
 
Aju.George 4.80
Circular Menu Component
Updated: 21 Jan 2005
Describes the use and architecture of an animated, circularly arranged pop-up menu control written in C#.
C#, VB, Windows, .NET1.1, GDI+, VS.NET2003, Architect, Dev, WinForm
 
Mark J Biddlecom 4.79
Flat-style menu bar and popup menu control for WinForms
Updated: 1 Feb 2006
A custom control for adding flat-style menu bars, navigation bars, or popup menus to your WinForms application.
C#, Windows, .NET1.1, VS.NET2003, Dev, WinForm
 
nschan 4.78
Fully customizable Menu-, Tool-, ContextMenu-, and Status strips
Updated: 3 Mar 2010
Change the colors used to render Menu-, Tool,- ContextMenu-, and Status strip controls during design-time.
VB9.0, VB10, VB.NET, Windows, .NET, VS2008, VS2010, Dev, Design, WinForm
 
NickThissen 4.74
Dynamic Submenus on Context Menus
Updated: 15 Apr 2010
Adding a Submenu to a Context Menu via Visual Basic
VB, .NET
 
Jalapeno Bob 4.50
FishEye Menu in Winforms
Updated: 12 Mar 2007
Brief How-To on a FishEye Menu
C#2.0, .NET2.0, WinXP, VS2005, Dev
 
Matias Szulman 4.45
Vista Style Address Bar for .NET 2.0/WinForms
Updated: 10 Apr 2010
WinForms version of the Vista style address bar that can be extended to support more than just browsing the file system.
C#, Windows (Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, Vista, Win2008), .NET (.NET2.0), Visual-Studio (VS2005, VS2008), Dev, WinForm
 
jwraith 4.40
Component for customizing menu shortcuts
Updated: 21 Oct 2008
A component that allows the customization of menu shortcuts. This can be useful for barrier free applications.
C#, .NET, Dev, WinForm
 
Günther M. FOIDL 4.38
Dynamic configuration of MFC menus and toolbars
Updated: 25 Mar 2009
Dynamic activation of application menus and toolbars through an external XML file.
VC6, VC7, VC7.1, VC8.0, WinXP, MFC, Dev
 
Franck Paquier 4.33
Automatic Merging of Menus and Toolbars in WPF
Updated: 26 Sep 2010
This article describes how menus and toolbars in WPF can be automatically merged.
C#, Windows, .NET, WPF, Dev, Toolbar, menu
 
Reinhard Ostermeier 4.25
Dynamic MainMenu formation in WinForm Application using DataSet
Updated: 24 Feb 2004
Dynamic MainMenu formation in WinForm application using DataSet.
C#, .NET1.0, .NET1.1, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, VS.NET2003, Dev
 
Amalorpavanathan Yagulasamy(AMAL) 3.87
Putting Images Next To MenuItems In A Menu in C#
Updated: 12 Jun 2003
Putting Images Next To MenuItems In A Menu in C#.NET
C#, .NET1.0, .NET1.1, Win2K, WinXP, Dev
 
KingTermite 3.67
A Toobar Color Picker
Updated: 21 Sep 2007
A toobar color picker
C# (C#1.0, C#2.0), Windows, .NET (.NET1.1, .NET2.0), Visual-Studio (VS.NET2003, VS2005), Dev
 
mksams 3.61
Create a Recent File List Menu and Save to File
Updated: 2 Jan 2009
Creating a recent file list and saving it to a configuration-like file
C#
 
asugix 3.57
MenuDecorator - Helper Class to Diagnose your Main Menu Contents
Updated: 30 Jun 2008
A class to colorize and enable the implemented main menu options in one step
C#2.0, Windows, .NET2.0, VS2008, Dev
 
Jaime Olivares 3.44
Dynamic MainMenu formation in Winform Application using XML - Part 2
Updated: 7 Feb 2004
Dynamic MainMenu formation in Winform application using XML.
C#, .NET1.1, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, VS.NET2003, Dev
 
Amalorpavanathan Yagulasamy(AMAL) 3.36
FlatMenusForm - a class, which makes the default 3D menus look flat
Updated: 31 May 2003
How to change the default 3D look in Windows 9x, NT and WinXP classic appearance menus.
C#, Windows, .NET1.0, Dev
 
Georgi Atanasov 3.27
A smart MenuItem
Updated: 26 Dec 2002
A Menuitem that acts as a MRU list
C#, Windows, .NET, Visual-Studio, Dev
 
Jan Wiggers 3.18
Customizable MainMenu on C#
Updated: 23 Dec 2004
An article on custom main menus and owner drawing.
C#, Windows, .NET1.0, .NET1.1, VS.NET2003, Dev
 
João Martins 3.08
Groupable ToolStripMenuItems
Updated: 26 Apr 2007
ToolStripMenuItems that imitate RadioButton-behaviour.
C#2.0, .NET2.0, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, Vista, VS2005, Dev
 
OlliFromTor 3.00
Toolbar control
Updated: 9 Aug 2003
Writing a custom control for the first time.
C#, Windows, .NET, Visual-Studio, Dev
 
Lasse Johansen 2.88
A Basic Chooser-Style DropDown ToolBar Button
Updated: 13 May 2005
This articles shows how to implement a basic, chooser-style dropdown ToolBar button.
C#, Windows, .NET1.1, GDI+, VS.NET2003, Dev
 
JRS 2.76
Navigation Menu for Windows forms (Outlook bar style)
Updated: 2 Apr 2007
This article is about the creation of a user control which have the style like Outlook Express bar or DHTML Menu
C#2.0, Windows, .NET, Dev
 
NinethSense 2.32
Make a "Search Google For" Context Menu - Unedited
Updated: 26 Mar 2008
A walkthrough for creating a handy Google Search For context menu, like in Firefox.
C# (C#1.0, C#2.0, C#3.0), Windows (WinXP, Vista), .NET (.NET3.5), Win32, Win64, Visual-Studio (VS2008), Dev, Design
 
Samuel Allen 1.71
Create Visio Add-on VSL project with Toolbar, Menu and Command Handler
Updated: 29 Feb 2008
An article on a Visio Add-on VSL project that is focussed on speed
C++, C# (C#2.0), Windows, .NET (.NET3.0), MFC, ATL, Dev
 
Member 480838 1.54
Replacing MainMenu Controls With VS2005 MenuStrip Controls - Unedited
Updated: 27 Feb 2008
Code to do an automated replace of the MainMenu controls
VB, .NET (.NET2.0), Visual-Studio, Dev
 
Bryan Symons  

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Office 2007 ToolStrip Renderer
Updated: 6 Dec 2006
Use a custom tool strip renderer to achieve the Office 2007 look and feel.
C#, Windows, .NET2.0, VS2005, Dev
 
Phil. Wright 4.91
A Simple C# Toolbar Docking Framework
Updated: 7 Sep 2004
An example framework for toolbar handling, written in C#.
C#, VC7, .NET1.0, WinXP, Dev
 
Rogério Paulo 4.88
Extended Interface for Toolbars
Updated: 10 Apr 2002
This extension allows toolbar buttons to call functions automatically
C#, Windows, .NET1.0, Dev
 
psdavis 4.87
Upgrading from MainMenu and ToolBar to MenuStrip and ToolStrip
Updated: 26 Feb 2006
Step-by-step guide to upgrading menus and toolbars to NET 2.0 and code for improving the user interface.
C#, .NET2.0, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, Vista, VS2005, Dev
 
Jim Hollenhorst 4.83
Magic MenuControl - VS.NET Style
Updated: 29 Sep 2002
Menus that mimic VS.NET/OfficeXP
C#, Windows, .NET1.0, Dev
 
Phil Wright 4.83
Rebar Control Wrapper in C#
Updated: 9 May 2002
C# Wrapper for the Microsoft Rebar Control
C#, .NET1.0, Win2K, WinXP, Dev
 
Anthony Baraff 4.82
Adding a custom control to a ToolStripDropDownButton
Updated: 9 Oct 2006
One approach to displaying a custom control in a ToolStrip drop-down button.
C#2.0, Windows, .NET2.0, VS2005, Dev
 
Tony Ioanides 4.62
Print Preview Control Bar
Updated: 2 May 2006
A toolbar for controlling print previews.
C#, Windows, .NET2.0, VS2005, Dev
 
MikePEQ 4.54
ToolStrip Custom Renderers
Updated: 25 Apr 2006
An article on creating custom renderers for a ToolStrip.
C#2.0, Windows, .NET2.0, VS2005, Architect, Dev
 
Thomas Stockwell 4.26

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