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vb.neticonscontextmenu
user856197
user856197

Reputation:

Add Icon to context Menu in VB.NET inside a windows forms appliction

I have searched many times here and on Google looking for a solution that did not envolve utilizing someone's class.

This context menu is pops up where the user right clicks inside a dataGridView

When adding the items the VB code is

Dim m As New ContextMenu()
m.MenuItems.Add(New MenuItem("Disassociate *A* Device"))
m.MenuItems.Add(New MenuItem("Purge Device Assosciations"))

Is there no simple way to reference a resource to add an icon to said menuItems?

Pseudo

m.MenuItem(0).Icon.Source = ....

?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 9475

Answers (3)

Chris
Chris

Reputation: 321

Assuming that this is for a Windows Forms application.

Why not use the ContextMenuStrip?

Example:

    Dim m As New ContextMenuStrip()

    Dim item As New ToolStripMenuItem("Click Me!")
    item.Image = My.Resources.image

    m.Items.Add(item)

    DataGridView1.ContextMenuStrip = m

Upvotes: 3

Patrick Garceau
Patrick Garceau

Reputation: 1

I use the image propery and assign a system.drawing.image object to it. You wont be able to do it in one line, you do the add once all the properties of the newmenu is set.

Upvotes: 0

Micah Armantrout
Micah Armantrout

Reputation: 6971

You will need to set Owner Draw to true and actually draw the menu item yourself

Here is a good detailed example

Upvotes: 0

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