Visual Inheritance Support for MenuStrip

Question

 I'm working on an application which has a common window hierarchy with menus and worked ok on vs2003, but now I'm on VS2008 sp1 trying to generate the same hirarchy and I'm amazed that visual support for differents controls like the menustrip are not working. I've been investigating, and so far it seems that the answer to my question is "it's not supported". I woul like to know if there's a workaround for this or how can I take a different approach to achieve this behavior. Hopefully any of you have gone through this problem... and have and answer.

Answer 1

Yes, it can not be done

Answer 2

How to enable visual inheritance for Developer Express controls when using them in Visual Studio 2005 or in Visual Studio 2008

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Thanks, A.m.a.L | [Remember to click "mark as answered" when you get a correct reply to your question]

Answer 3

Microsoft have disabled Visual Inheritance for ToolStrip controls for reasons that could have easily been solved (in my opinion).

They claim it would take too much effort to manage the child control collection over an inheritance hierarchy. But they could've easily made it so you just merge separate collections into one at load-time, achieving the same result but by-passing all the issues.

I have developed some controls that do exactly that, and the result is essentially Visual Inheritance for MenuStrip, ToolBarStrip and StatusStrip Controls.

The source is available free of charge.

Answer 4

Yes it can, see this link.