Creating contextmenustrip using all the dropdownitems from a toolstripmenuitem including toolstripseperator

Question

I have a Menustrip which displays a large number of menus and submenus. Like File, Edit, Master, transcation etc.. I want display a context menu dynamically generated from the submenus of menus strip please help...

Answer 1

Hi Shri,

Welcome to the MSDN forum.

To generate a menu strip dynamically, you can use the following codes:

    Private Sub Form1_Load(sender As System.Object, e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load

        Dim ms As New MenuStrip()

        Dim testItem As New ToolStripMenuItem("Test", Nothing, New EventHandler(AddressOf item_Click))

        ms.Items.Add(testItem)

        Me.Controls.Add(ms)

        ms.Visible = True

    End Sub

    Private Sub item_Click(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As EventArgs)

        Stop

    End Sub

This reference link may be helpful also: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/forums/en-US/vbgeneral/thread/2160832d-ebd3-476a-892d-2a1e1403b532

If I misunderstood anything, please feel free and let me know.

Best regards,

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Shanks Zen
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Answer 2

 Thanks Shanks Zen,

But I am Trying to generate Context menu using Menu Strip which is already created at design time. I want both the Menu Item and  Context menu Item should share a same event ... 

Answer 3

Hello

A quick test on this, and can't a solution for binding event for them :(

    Private Sub Form1_Load(sender As System.Object, e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
        Dim Menu As New ContextMenuStrip()
        For Each t As ToolStripMenuItem In MenuStrip1.Items
            Dim test As New ToolStripMenuItem(t.Text)
            For Each s As ToolStripDropDownItem In t.DropDownItems
                test.DropDownItems.Add(s.Text)
            Next
            Menu.Items.AddRange(New ToolStripItem() {test})
        Next
    End Sub

Whatever, hope some members will jump into this case because I'm expecting a solution for this too.

Answer 4

I have found the unique solution. 

I just remove the dropdownitems of all the menustrip item and made them as a context menu.

 the context menu can be added to the MenustripItems dropdown Item. Something like

MenuStripItem.DropDown =ContextMenu1

this can be used for both Mwnu dropdown or Context menu having a same event.

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Shrinidhi Acharya

Answer 5

You can add lots of menu and context menu just make combination between them, and make proper combination for your solution.

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Gagi78