Tab Controls

 

Overview

The presentation of a main menu across the top of most Microsoft products came early in Windows software development in the 1970s. At that time the most significant program that Microsoft sold was the word processor Word.

Word processors were the most complicated piece of software ever invented by man (and they still are), so it was necessary that all user options be presented by a scheme that did not cover or minimize the view of the text on the screen. The main menu with submenu pull- downs was the answer. Later on, context (pop-up) menus appeared in the list of available assets in C and C++ compilers, but these context menus are used infrequently.

Creating menus in the past was a boring and tiresome process. Not so with the menu implementation in Visual Studio C#! You will be pleased at how simple the process has become.

In the first part of this chapter, we create a main menu with submenu items. In the second part, we create a context menu.

 


Unlocking Microsoft C# V 2.0 Programming Secrets
Unlocking Microsoft C# V 2.0 Programming Secrets (Wordware Applications Library)
ISBN: 1556220979
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2005
Pages: 129

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