

The menu is already docked to the top of the form because, by convention, it goes right there. Double-clicking the MenuStrip control adds one to the form. Probably the most used control of these is the MenuStrip control. A section dedicated to the strip controls is created by default.

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So if you need the oldest version for any reason, there still there.Īfter you created a new Windows form application, open a form in the designer and watch the toolbox. NET Framework, primarily for backwards compatibility. The controls MainMenu, ToolBar, StatusBar, and ContextMenu are not included by default in the Visual Studio Toolbox but they are still included in the. That was correct in many situations but also occasionally led to strange behaviors. That means that you were upgrading an application, oldest controls were automatically replaces with newer version. In the past, Microsoft often replaced existing controls with newer version. For example, a RichTextBox object is used with an OpenFileDialog and a SaveFileDialog component in order to have the File Open and File Save menu items working (have a look at my article of June 2003 if you need help on these dialogs).
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The downloadable demo contains the code found here in the article in addition to other to get fully functional application. They all have more options and are all working much the same way so that when you teach one you know most of the others by the same time.Īll the controls of this family provide the same look and feel as Microsoft Office 2003. Controls like the ToolStrip (replaces the ToolBar), the StatusStrip (replaces StatusBar), the MenuStrip (replaces the MainMenu), and the ContextMenuStrip (replaces the ContextMenu) are an improvement over their previous version. It is not a single control but a family of controls that will all work together.

I will start this month with the Strip controls family. I have already done an introduction to major features of VS 2005 in the November 2005 edition of Universal Thread. Chances are that I will revisit some of the articles I wrote over the last 3 years to tell you how you can benefits from the changes between VB 2005 and VB.Net 2003 (and even in some case VB.Net 2002). Starting this month, all my columns will target Visual Studio 2005. Don’t be disappointed but it won’t be related to sex in anyways. If you are a male, I surely have your attention now.
