C# Primer: A Practical Approach

6.9. Serving Up Menus

Menus are very simple to insert into a form. Figure 6.14 illustrates the design of a three-level hierarchy of menu items under the title Edit. The steps to create such a menu are as follows:

Figure 6.14. Menu Design

1.	Click on MainMenu in the Windows Forms Toolbox window (on the left in Figure 6.14) and drag it onto the form. The menu is a nonvisible control, so the icon appears below the form. (In Figure 6.14, there are four nonvisible controls.)
2.	Click on the mainMenu1 icon; a Type Here box appears on the second line of the form.
3.	Click on the box. Two additional Type Here boxes appear—one below the current item ...