How to Add a Menu Strip to a VB.net Application

Every windows application, or practically every windows application has menus. If you are writing a VB.net application, here is how you can add one.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• VB.net

1. Open VB.net and create a new project.

2. 
   Menus & Toolbars

   In your Toolbox look for the section labeled "Menus & Toolbars".

3. 
   MenuStrip

   Look for the item labeled "MenuStrip". Click on it. You will see your mousepointer change from an arror to a smaller icon of the control you are about to add to your form.

4. 
   Added to Form

   Now click on your form to add the Menu strip to your application.

5. Now that it has been added to the form we can create some menu options. For our example we will use "File" as out top level menu item and "Exit" as a submenu item under "File".

6. 
   File

   Click where it says "Type Here". It will change to a textbox where you can type in what the menu item wil display to the user. Type in "File".

7. 
   New Menu item

   You will also notice as you click on the area that says "Type Here", a new menu item for you to choose will be created to its right and one below.

8. 
   Submenu

   In the new menu item below "File" click where it says "Type Here".

9. 
   Exit Menu item

   In the blank box type in "Exit" and hit your enter key on your keyboard. This will be our submenu item. We are now done creating our example menu structure.

10. 
    Click event

    Now that you have your menu structure complete, it has to do something. For our example we are going to use the Exit submenu item as a means to end the program. Double click on the "Exit" submenu item that you created. This will bring up the menu item's click event.

11. 
    Code

    In the click event type in the code:
    
    END
    
    This will end the program.

12. 
    Run

    Run your program by clicking the F5 key on your keyboard.

13. Click File then click Exit. Notice how your program ends.

Resources

• Mike's "How-to" Blog