Form Menus
As interesting as forms themselves are—with their lifetime, adornments, transparency settings, and input options—they're all the more interesting with controls on them. But before we get into managing a form's controls in general, we need to take a quick look at menus, which have special support in WinForms. Not only does VS.NET have a special Menu Designer (as shown in Figure 2.7), but also, unlike every other control, a Form can show only one main menu at a time, as stored in the Form.Menu property (which is of type MainMenu).
Figure 2.7. The VS.NET Menu Designer
Although you are limited to a single main menu showing on a form at ...
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