1. Menus Menus provide groups of related commands for windows applications Menu, menu items, submenus A menu item that contains a submenu is considered to be the parent menu of that submenu All menu items can have Alt key shortcuts( also called access shortcuts or hot keys) This behavior can be established with property Mnemonic Hot key is specified by inserting an ampersand before the character in text property

2. Create a menu Open the toolbox, and drag a MainMenu control onto the form To select the MainMenu, click on the icon This setup is known as the visual studio.NET Menu Designer To add entries to the menu, click the type here textbox and type the text. Each entry in the menu id of type MenuItem from the System::Windows::Forms namespace. The menu itself is of type MainMenu

3. MainMenu and MenuItem Event and properties Common MainMenu and MenuItem event  Click – generated when a menu or menu item is clicked, or when a shortcut key is used. Common MainMenu properties  MenuItems – represents the MenuItems that are contained in the MainMenu  RightToLeft –Causes menu text to display from right to left. Useful for languages that are rad from right to left. Common MenuItem Properties  Checked – indicated whether a menu item is checked. Default is false  Index – specifies an item’s position in its parent menu

4. Continued MenuItem properties  MenuItems – lists the submenu items for a particular menu item.  Mnemonic – indicates the character associated with the menu item. Provides only a get method; set mnemonic character by preceding it with an ampersand (&) in menu item’s Text property  RadioCheck- indicates whether a selected menu item appears as a radio button (true) or displays a check mark (false); default is false  Shortcut- specifies the short cut key for the menu item (e.g. Ctrl+F9 can be equivalent to clicking a specific item)  ShowShortcut – indicates whether a shortcut key is shown beside menu item text  Text – specifies the text to appear in the menu item. To create an Alt access shortcut, precede a character with &

5. LinkedLabels Displays links to other objects, such as files or web pages It appears as underlined text Link can change color to indicate whether the link is new, visited or active. When clicked, it generates a LinkedClicked event Class LinkedLabel is derived from Label

6. Common properties ActiveLinkColor – specifies the color of the active ink when clicked. Default is red LinkArea – specifies which portion of text in the LinkLabel is treated as part of the link LinkBehavior – specifies the link’s behavior, such as how the link appears when the mouse is placed over it. LinkColor – specifies the original color. Blue Links – lists the LinkLabel::Link objects, which are the links contained in the LinkLabel

7. LinkVisited – if true, link appears as if it were visited. Default is false Text – specifies the text to appear on the control UseMnemonic – if true, &character in Text property acts