Building Menus

When I said that Visual C# .NET makes building menus easier than ever, I wasn't kidding. Building menus is now an immediately gratifying process. I can't stress enough how important it is to have good menus, and now that it's so easy to do, there is no excuse for not putting menus in an application.

When running an application for the first time, users will often scan the menus before opening a manual. (Most users never open the manual!) When you provide comprehensive menus, you make your program easier to learn and use.

Adding Menu Items

Adding menus to a form is accomplished by way of a control: the Main Menu control. The Main ...

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