how to add items to menu strip programmingly

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i have three forms form1, form2 and form3,

but i am writing my code in another class

from that class i have five items item1, item2, item3, item4, item5

now by programming i want to add these items in form1 menu strip

how it will done i have done but in the same form it is clear

but i have to make in other form

Posted 10-Jul-11 23:30pm

kami124

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Answer 1 · 2011-07-11T10:47:00

You can do it of course. Instead of showing to you how to do it, I'll show you how to find a code sample.

First, ask yourself? What is adding menu items not programmatically? This is no such thing!

Even if you're working with designer, it simply generates essentially the same code you would do "programmatically". So, do a simple thing: add menu with items in designer and look at the generated code. Not just for menu — for all controls you need to generate programmatically.

—SA

#realJSOP · Answer 2 · 2011-07-10T23:51:00

Solution 1

If you have three forms, why do you have to add the menu items programatically? Just do it in the designer and be done with it. I'm suggesting this because based on your original question, there's no need to add items in code.

Posted 10-Jul-11 23:51pm

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kami124 11-Jul-11 5:58am

ya you are right but i create one form by which i will send the name of an item and that nitem will be added to menu strip becouse that will done by end user for tis i want to create a function which will get the item as an argument and function defination will be to add the item in menu

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 11-Jul-11 16:49pm

Sorry, John, I disagree. There a many, many cases when one needs to generate a menu programmatically. Those cases are just more advanced. Sometimes the menu is generated out of meta-data, to make a single application having different functionality; sometimes you need to merge menus from plug-ins.
By that reason, I just provided an answer.
--SA

#realJSOP · Answer 3 · 2011-07-11T09:23:00

Solution 2

Assuming you already have a menu strip, just get the item you want to add a sub-menu to, and add the appropriately configured MenuItem objects.

Posted 11-Jul-11 9:23am

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