25.1. Menus

WPF provides two menu controls: Menu (for main menus) and ContextMenu (for popup menus that are attached to other elements). Like all the WPF classes, WPF performs the rendering for the Menu and ContextMenu controls. That means these controls aren't simple Win32 wrappers, and they have the flexibility to be used in some unusual ways.

NOTE

If you use the Menu class in a browser-hosted application, it appears at the top of the page. The browser window wraps your page, and it may or may not include a menu of its own, which will be completely separate.

25.1.1. The Menu Class

WPF doesn't make any assumption about where a stand-alone menu should be placed. Ordinarily, you'll dock it at the top of your window using a DockPanel or the ...

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