VB.NET-ADVANCEDFORM.PDF

VB.N T - ADVANC D FORM VB.N T - ADVANC D FORM http://www.tutorialspoint .com//_advanced_forms.htm Copy right © In this chapter, let us study the following concepts: Adding menus and sub menus in an application Adding the cut, copy and paste functionalities in a form A nchoring and docking controls in a form Modal forms Adding Menus and Sub Menus in an Application T raditionally, the Menu, MainMenu, ContextMenu, and MenuItem classes were used for adding menus, sub-menus and context menus in a Windows application. Now, the MenuStrip, the ToolStripMenuItem, ToolStripDropDown and ToolStripDropDownMenu controls replace and add functionality to the Menu-related controls of previous versions. However, the old control classes are retained for both backward compatibility and future use. Let us create a typical windows main menu bar and sub menus using the old version controls first since these controls are still much used in old applications. Following is an example, which shows how we create a menu bar with menu items: File, dit, V iew and Project. T he File menu has the sub menus New, Open and Save. Lets double click on the Form and put the following code in the opened window. Public Class Form1 Private Sub Form1_Load(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) andles MyBase.Load defining the main menu bar Dim mnuBar As New MainMenu() defining the menu items for the main menu bar Dim myMenuItemFile As New MenuItem (File) Dim myMenuItemEdit As New MenuItem (Edit) Dim myMenuItemView As New MenuItem (View) Dim myMenuItemProject As New MenuItem (Project) adding the menu items to the main menu bar mnuBar.MenuItems.Add(myMenuItemFile) mnuBar.MenuItems.Add(myMenuItemEdit) mnuBar.MenuItems.Add(myMenuItemView) mnuBar.MenuItems.Add(myMenuItemProject