Building Effective User Interfaces with the Menu Control
WPF still enables creating user interfaces based on menus via the Menu control. You nest inside the Menu control many MenuItem objects and as many commands as you need; you can also nest MenuItem objects into other MenuItems to create submenus. Menus in WPF are highly customizable because you can specify background and foreground colors, add images and other visual elements, and set different fonts for specific menu items. The following example shows how to accomplish this:
<DockPanel LastChildFill="True" VerticalAlignment="Top"> <Menu DockPanel.Dock="Top"> <MenuItem Header="First menu" IsEnabled="True" DockPanel.Dock="Top"> <MenuItem ...
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