Creating a standard menu
A drop-down menu is one of the most (if the not the most) recognizable aspects of graphical user interfaces. Not as popular today as it was in the early days of GUIs, it's still a vital part of many applications. Let's see how to create one with WPF.
Getting ready
Make sure Visual Studio is up and running.
How to do it…
We'll create a simple Notepad-like text editor with a typical menu:
- Create a new WPF application named
CH04.Menus
. - Open
MainWindow.xaml
. Add two rows to the existingGrid
as follows:<Grid.RowDefinitions> <RowDefinition Height="Auto"/> <RowDefinition /> </Grid.RowDefinitions>
- Add a
TextBox
to the second row:<TextBox Grid.Row="1" AcceptsReturn="True" />
- Add a
Menu
control to the first row withMenuItem
objects underneath: ...
Get Windows Presentation Foundation 4.5 Cookbook now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.