ToolStripMenuItem show sub menu on Mouse hover in Windows Forms

Question

I am having a windows form menu strip control. And having ToolStripMenu Item with text of "Click Me". Now i want to display its sub menu toolstrip items on Mouse Hover Event of the "Click Me" ToolStrip. Can any one suggest how its can be done.

Here on mousehover event i want to display its sub menu item like this

Answer 1

You can handle MouseHover event of the items and then using ShowDropDown method, open the dropdown. This way, menus will open on hover rather than click.

For example:

private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    this.menuStrip1.Items.OfType<ToolStripMenuItem>().ToList().ForEach(x =>
    {
        x.MouseHover += (obj, arg) => ((ToolStripDropDownItem)obj).ShowDropDown();
    });
}

Answer 2

System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripMenuItem clickmeeToolStripMenuItem
this.clickmeeToolStripMenuItem = new System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripMenuItem()
this.clickmeeToolStripMenuItem.MouseHover += new System.EventHandler(this.clickmeeToolStripMenuItem_MouseHover);

//ADD THIS METHOD TO YOUR EVENT METHOD

clickmeeToolStripMenuItem.ShowDropDown();