Getting Started of Menu UI Controls

• Menus UI WinForms Control
• Getting Started of Menu UI Controls
• C# Menu Designer of Menu Controls
• C# Menus Items of Menu Control
• Customize Menes Style and Appearance
• Merge Menus in C#.NET Projects
• Menus for Windows Forms Applications
• Context Menus for Menus Control

How to Create Menus in C#.NET

1. Create a new Windows Forms project or open an exist one, drag a Kettic menu control and drop to a form.
2. Hit the area labeled as Type Here, click File and Help, and then hit Enter key respectively
3. And now, we can add a theme to the menu by dragging a predefined theme from toolbox, for example the Office 2010Blue. This is accomplished by choosing the Kettic Menu control and changing the ThemeName property to Office 2010Blue.
4. Choose the File menu item, open the Properties window, click in the Items property, and select the ellipsis button.
5. Open the KetticItem Collection Editor, click the Add button, select the drop down arrow, and then choose the KetticMenuItem. Change the value of the Text property to New.
6. Add two more KetticMenuItems. Set the Text properties to Open and Save respectively. And then click OK button
7. Now, we can go to set the Help menu item. Choose the Help menu item, open the Properties window, click in the Items property, and select the ellipsis button.
8. Open the KetticItem Collection Editor, click the Add button, select the drop down arrow, and then choose the KetticMenuComboItem. Clear the Text property of the KetticMenuComboItem.
9. And then expand the ComboBoxElement property of the KetticMenuComboItem, hit the Items property of it, and click the ellipsis button.
10. Open the KetticListDataItem Collection Editor, hit the Add button, and change the value of the Text property of the new KetticComboBoxItem to Forums.
11. Add two more KetticComboBoxItem. Set the Text properties to Support and Knowledge Base respectively.
12. And then click the OK button to close the KetticListDataItem Collection Editor and click OK button to close the KetticItem Collection Editor.
13. If we want to assign a shortcut to a KetticMenuItem, we need to use the simple C# code snippet,
14. Open the Design View of the form, choose the New menu item, open the Properties window, click the events toolbar button, and double clicks the Click event.
15. Copy and paste the C# code below to the event handler
16. Finally, we can switch to the Design View mode and run the project to see the menu styling, test the message box by using shortcuts and combo box in help menu