C# Windows Forms MenuStrip - how can I swap out a menu or section of a menu on a form?

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I've got a C# Windows Forms application that I want to swap out the menustrip dynamically in the code based on a users selection. Or at least a section of the menu. It would be nice to modularize the menu sections like FILE, ZOOM, ACTIONS, etc. and be able to build a menu dynamically. If I have a game with 10 scenarios and each has different items in the ACTIONS section of the menu, can I just swap out that code with another code block? I'd also like to move these menus to a separate code file so they are not cluttering up the Forms main code section. Any suggestions? I'm kind of new to this....

Posted 16-May-13 7:57am

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OriginalGriff · Accepted Answer · 2013-05-16T08:20:00

Moving the menus to a different file is trivial: your form is declared as

C#

public partial class MyFormName : Form

So you just add more files that also generate partial class code for the same class - it's pretty standard for large classes to break it up in this way.

Can I make a suggestion on your menus, that you may not have thought about?
Create a menu for the first scenario, and make it complete for that scenario. Then set it's Visible property to false.
Do the same for the other nine. When you run your code, none of them will appear.
So all you have to do is set the appropriate Menu item Visible = true, and it and only it will appear to the user. Any common items have different names, but the same text, and are "wired" to teh same event handler method. Simples!