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Capturing whole ToolStripMenu tree with ToString

If I run the code in varying areas of my menu tree, I only get the one element, how would you firstly apply this logic to all sub components of this menu tree and secondly, illustrate the whole tree. The code I have only shows 1 stage of each area…
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Cannot catch Ctrl+Alt+F1 in WinForms MDI. Is it special?

My WinForms MDI application has several keyboard shortcuts set at ToolStripMeniItem items. Among the following ones: Ctrl+Alt+F1 Ctrl+Alt+F2 Ctrl+Alt+F3 the first one is never triggering its menu item. Others work as expected. Is it somewhere…
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Disable ToolStripMenuItem highlight?

I have an application with a MenuStrip and every time I hover my mouse over a MenuItem, it highlights blue. I have tried to change the BackColor and ForeColor but that wasn't the problem. Is there a way to disable this?
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Custom Zedgraph ToolStripMenuItem won't check when clicked

I customize the right click menu thanks to this : lineGraphControl1.ContextMenuBuilder += new ZedGraphControl.ContextMenuBuilderEventHandler(MyContextMenuBuilder); And private void MyContextMenuBuilder(ZedGraphControl control, ContextMenuStrip…
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C# Winforms Dynamic menu entries

I'm attempting to create a dynamic menu strip in my program. Here's an example of what it looks like right now: Creating the ToolstripMenuItems dynamically itself is easy. What I plan to do is to check if the current month already exists in the…
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ToolStripMenuItem ShowDropDown - event doesn't fire

I want to put a context sensitive menu on the right-click of a DataGridView. I want to have a single menu item derived from the content of the clicked cell and a variable number of items in a sub-menu, retrieved from a database. I do this by…
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Color change for MenuItem

I am programming a Backup Tool. On top of my tool I have a menustrip containing two toolstripmenuitems. I changed the colors a little bit to my expectations. Not focused the menu looks great: When I now click on the menu item "File" to open the…
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Customize ToolStripMenuItems in c#

I need to customize the ToolStripMenuItems in my application. Each ToolStripMenuItem that open a submenu has a black arrow near the text. I want to change some colors (MenuItemSelected, MenuItemBorder, MenuItemSelectedGradientBegin, ...) and the…
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c# change already open form from another form?

C# windows forms: Is it possible to create a button that changes the text of a ToolStripMenuItem in another form that is already open? Something like: private void button1_Click_1(object sender, EventArgs e) { Form1.ToolStripMenuItem.Text =…
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Adding an existing ToolStripMenuItem to a ContextMenu dynamically makes it disappear from its original place

I have a Form that has a menu called MenuEdit, with a ToolStripMenuItem called MenuEditElement inside. When I right click on a listview, I want to create a Context Menu dynamically, containing EditElement, among other things. I'm doing it like…
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How to find toolstripmenuItem with name

I have set visible property of my menuStrip1 items to false as foreach (ToolStripMenuItem itm in menuStrip1.Items) { itm.Visible = false; } Now I know the Names of toolStripMenuItem and dropDownItem of the menustrip1. How to can I activate the…
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How to add to ContextMenuStrip and ToolStrip same ToolStripButtons?

I have tool bar in my app and context menu with the same options, so I want to add ToolStripButtons to both ContextMenuStrip and ToolStrip, unfortunately I can't do this. Even when I add manually items to both it shows only on one. For now I have…
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How do I filter ToolStripMenuItem mouse events in a Winforms application?

I have a .Net Winforms application with a ToolStrip that contains several ToolStripMenuItems. I would like to be able to intercept Mouse LButton down events on the ToolStripMenuItems. I have PreFilterMessage defined. I assume I should be able to…
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How to find a toolstripitem based on its name being a variable and then change the checked value of it

I have a ContextMenuStrip called: DGVContextStrip its displayed when the user right clicks on my datagridview. That MenuStrip contains an item called AddUpgradeTagToolStripMenuItem which contains sub items(dropdownitems), these sub items are all…
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How do I set a submenu DropDownItem to CHECKED without Clicking on it?

I've created a contextmenu (ie displays on a right mouse click) at design time with 2 menu items. I'm subsequently using code to add submenu items eg. For the 2nd menu item I add the following 4 submenu items. (contextMenuStrip1.Items[1] as…
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