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Add Images to Menu Items in C#.NET

Kettic Menu Control for Windows Forms allows the designers to add images to menu items. It is capable of placing images in a main menu item as well as in a sub menu item. To add image to menu items, we can use the KetticItemImage property or supply the images to the ImageList control. The KetticItemImage property is able to directly add images to menu items via local and project resources.

Add Local Image to Menu Items

Kettic Menu control allows the users to add image from local resources to menu items for their applications. The steps below show how to accomplish this.

Click the KetticMenuItem and the Images property ellipses in the Property window in your project.
Choose Local resource in the Select Resource dialog, and then click the Import button.
Navigate to an image file in the Open dialog and choose an image file and click the Open button. The supported image formats include gif, jpg, bmp, wmf, and png.
After importing the image, we can preview it in the Select Resource dialog window.
Click OK to close the dialog and the image will appear in the menu item.

Add Project Image to Menu Items

Kettic Menu control allows the users to add image from project resources to menu items for their applications. The steps below show how to accomplish this.

Click the KetticMenuItem and the Images property ellipses in the Property window in your project.
Choose Project resource in the Select Resource dialog, and then click the Import button.
Navigate to an image file in the Open dialog and choose an image file and click the Open button. The supported image formats include gif, jpg, bmp, wmf, and png.
After importing the image, we can preview the image in the Select Resource dialog window and in the list of resources.
A resources folder with the newly added image file will be automatically added to the Solution Explorer
Click OK to close the dialog and the image will appear in the menu item.

Add Images to Menu Items using an ImageList

Kettic Menu control provides the support of managing multiple images for the using of various controls at a time. This is accomplished by using the standard ImageList component for Windows application. The ImageListSmart Tag is capable of changing the size of all images at a time and selecting an image from the multiple image files. When increasing the size of images, they are not attractive based on the original resolution.

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