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Menus - Custom menus			top
Title / Updated	Author	Score
Owner Drawn Menu with Icons, Titles and Shading Updated: 5 Dec 2003   An easy use of owner drawn menu with variable styles like new Office products with titles, shading and icons. VC6, VC7, VC7.1, Win2K, WinXP, VS.NET2003, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Bruno Podetti	4.79
A Revolutionary New Approach to Custom Drawn Menus Updated: 26 May 2003   A new and unique approach to the perennial problem of how to change the default appearance of Windows menus VC6, Win2K, WinXP, VS6, MFC, Dev, Advanced	.dan.g.	4.73
CMenuXP - The Office XP Style Menu Updated: 13 Jul 2003   Owner drawn menu with the Office XP visual style VC6, VC7, NT4, Win2K, WinXP, VS.NET2002, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Jean-Michel LE FOL	4.73
Super Context Menu Updated: 11 Jun 2008   How to build a context menu that display any group of controls C#, Windows, .NET, Dev, Design, Intermediate	Hany Badrous	4.73
Cool Owner Drawn Menus with Bitmaps - Version 3.03 Updated: 28 Apr 2002   This class implements an owner drawn menu class that mimics the menu style used in XP, Office and Visual C++ VC6, NT4, VS6, MFC, Dev, Advanced	Brent Corkum	4.72
Menu Bitmaps from Minimal Source Code Updated: 1 Feb 2002   Add bitmaps to your menus easily and with very little source code. VC6, VC7, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Warren Gardner	4.59
Customizing Menu Shortcuts Updated: 21 Oct 2008   Sample that allows the user to customize the shortcuts assigned to menu items. .NET 3.5, VS2008, C#, Visual Studio, Dev, Design, LINQ, Intermediate	Günther M. FOIDL	4.56
A Powerfull Ownerdraw Menu Updated: 23 Oct 2001   An XP-style ownerdrawn menu with support for background images and icon shadow. VC6, NT4, Win2K, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Neil Yao	4.47
A ToolBarCtrl Based Menubar Control Updated: 3 Dec 2001   A ToolBarCtrl based menubar control using CMenuXP VC6, Win2K, WinXP, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Neil Yao	4.44
Owner drawn menu with bitmaps, icons, and colors Updated: 8 Sep 2002   Use application resources to create your owner drawn menu.  VC6, WinXP, VS6, C++/CLI, .NET, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	chia hung liu	3.87
Simple Menus That Display Icons - Minimalistic Approach Updated: 20 Jan 2008   A super-modest approach to owner-drawn menus. VC6, VC8.0, Win2K, WinXP, VS2005, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Alex Cohn	3.74
Owner Drawn Menu with Icons, Fade 2D-3D Horizontal/Vertical Updated: 29 Nov 2003   This article describes an owner drawn menu with icons, fade 2D-3D horizontal/vertical. VC6, VS6, Windows, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Dascalescu Romy	3.71
Reduced context menus Updated: 5 Nov 2002   This code provides a simple way to remove disabled items from a context menu. VC6, Win2K, WinXP, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	S Fewings	3.43
Popup menu with nice title Updated: 2 Apr 2002   Put a nice title above your popup menus VC6, VC7, Win2K, WinXP, Visual Studio, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Arthur Westerman	3.35
Tear-off menus Updated: 4 Dec 2003   See how to have tear-off menus in your program. VC6, WinXP, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Alexander Bischofberger	3.16
Modifying the System Menu Updated: 26 Jan 2007   Add menu items to, and learn how to handle the system menu C++, Windows, Visual Studio, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	John Simmons / outlaw programmer	3.13
Menus & Toolbars - Docking bars			top
Title / Updated	Author	Score
OutlookBar: A Simplified Outlook Style Sidebar Control Updated: 10 Nov 2006   An article on using and writing a user control resembling one of Outlook's sidebar controls. .NET 2.0, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, VS2005, C#, Dev, WinForms, Intermediate	Herre Kuijpers	4.65
BarTender - Group your contents Updated: 25 Apr 2006   An Outlook bar like control with generic contents and animation effects. .NET 1.1, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, VS.NET2003, C#, GDI+, Dev, WinForms, Intermediate	Robert Rohde	4.56
A Docking control that can be dragged and resized by the user Updated: 22 Oct 2001   This control allows the user to resize and drag your docking control to different form edges C#, Windows, .NET, Visual Studio, Dev, Intermediate	Phil Wright	3.83
Menus - General			top
Title / Updated	Author	Score
Menu Images using C# and IExtenderProvider - a better mousetrap! Updated: 24 Nov 2002   How to extend the standard menus to support icons using IExtender in C#. .NET 1.0, WinXP, VS.NET2002, C#, Dev, Intermediate	Chris Beckett	4.84
An examination of menus from a beginner's point of view Updated: 22 Jun 2004   A discussion of the OS menu object from a beginner's viewpoint. I take you through the basics to a more advanced understanding of menus and how to interact with them from code. VC6, NT4, Win2K, WinXP, Visual Studio, MFC, Dev, Beginner	Roger Allen	4.78
Cheat's Outlook Bar Updated: 3 Mar 2005   An alternative "minimal-code" Outlook-style menu bar. C#, Windows, .NET, Visual Studio, GDI+, Dev, Intermediate	Gary Perkin	4.73
Owner drawn menus in two lines of code Updated: 4 Feb 2005   Another method of implementing owner drawn menus, which only requires two lines of code by you the coder. VC6, Win2K, WinXP, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Roger Allen	4.73
Dynamic Items Updated: 24 Feb 2003   A class and an easy way to dynamically add items stored in a file to a menu VC6, NT4, Win2K, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	David Excoffier	4.73
Gradient Menus in MFC Updated: 14 May 2000   Create Popup menus in MFC with a gradient and text on the left side VC6, NT4, Win2K, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Jim Koornneef	4.71
Cool Vista-style Menu Updated: 3 Jan 2009   Cool Vista style menu in your .NET applications C# 2.0, .NET 3.0, Windows, GDI+, Dev, Intermediate	Nedim Sabic	4.63
Dual Menus: Add a Left-click Menu to your Application's Tray Icon Updated: 27 Sep 2007   This article will show you a trick to spoof a right-click on your tray icon to support dual contextual menus for your application's NotifyIcon. C#, Windows, .NET, Visual Studio, Dev, Intermediate	chaiguy1337	4.63
MenuItem Extender - add images and font support to your menu Updated: 29 Feb 2004   An extender provider component that provides Image and Font properties to a MenuItem class. .NET 1.0, .NET 1.1, Win2K, WinXP, VS.NET2003, C#, Dev, Intermediate	Eugene Pankov	4.56
A Magical Edit Menu Manager Updated: 22 Feb 2004   A magical edit menu that works with no connections to the rest of your project. .NET 1.0, VS.NET2002, C#, Windows, Dev, Intermediate	Tom Clement	4.55
Extended Interface for Status Message Updated: 8 Apr 2002   Adding an extended property to Menus in order to provide automatic statusbar messages as the user chooses different menu options. .NET 1.0, VS.NET2002, C#, Windows, Dev, Intermediate	psdavis	4.55
MenuEx - full image and color support for Windows Forms Menus using C# Updated: 13 Jul 2005   A component suite to implement full owner-draw MenuItem support, including the painting of Menu Bars. .NET 1.1, Win2K, WinXP, VS.NET2003, C#, GDI+, Dev, WinForms, Intermediate	Jonathan Lynas	4.54
Command Routing for Popup Menus Updated: 22 Aug 2000   Handle grayed/disabled/checked menu items using the familiar OnUpdate interface VC6, NT4, Win2K, Visual Studio, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Noel Dillabough	4.50
Command switchboard for Windows Forms Updated: 12 Jul 2007   Switchboard component for user interface commands with design time support .NET 2.0, VS2005, C# 2.0, Windows, Dev, Intermediate	B.Sundby	4.46
Add serialization support to CMenu Updated: 4 Dec 2001   The CMenu class is a great help when it comes to manipulating menus, but unfortunately it doesn't implement serialization. CSerializableMenu is a subclass of CMenu that provides serialization support. VC6, Win2K, WinXP, Visual Studio, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Sidney Chong	4.44
XPrintHeader - Choose page header format using "More like this" popup menus Updated: 30 Jul 2003   XPrintHeader implements a dialog that allows the user to choose the formatting for a page header by dynamically created popup menus. VC6, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Hans Dietrich	4.44
An XML-Driven Menu Strip Updated: 16 Apr 2007   In this article, I'm going to show how to generate a dynamic MenuStrip (.NET 2.0's replacement of the MainMenu control) using recursion in C#. The MenuStrip will be based on XML data which contains all the details about the generated Menu. .NET 2.0, WinXP, Vista, VS2005, C# 2.0, Dev, Intermediate	Bryan Ray	4.44
Iconized MenuItem Updated: 28 Nov 2005   How to implement a full-featured iconized menu item in C#. C#, Windows, .NET, Visual Studio, Dev, Intermediate	Nikita D. Sinelnikoff	4.42
Office 2003 Menus Updated: 23 Feb 2004   A component to change the look of the menus to that of Office 2003 .NET 1.1, VS.NET2003, C#, Windows, Dev, Intermediate	Mohammed Halabi	4.40
Most Recently Used (MRU) Component Updated: 5 Nov 2004   A Most Recently Used component written in C#. .NET 1.0, Win2K, WinXP, VS.NET2002, C#, Dev, WinForms, Intermediate	Tim Almdal	4.38
Display any usercontrol as a popup menu Updated: 1 May 2005   This article introduces a little class which lets you show any usercontrol in XP style popup menu. .NET 1.1, VS.NET2003, C#, VB, Windows, Dev, WinForms, Intermediate	Pascal Ganaye	4.37
Dynamic Menu Based on Database Updated: 10 Nov 2005   A dynamic personal menu for applications based on the information in database. VB, Windows, .NET, Visual Studio, Dev, Intermediate	Daniel Presman	4.33
VB.NET-XML based Dynamic Menu Component using Recursion Technique Updated: 15 Jan 2007   Generating Dynamic Menus (using recursion) in VB.NET using XML data .NET 2.0, VS2005, VB, XML, Windows, Dev, Intermediate	Sundar Kasthuri	4.23
Add User Shortcuts To Files/URLs to Application Menus Updated: 22 Nov 2006   .NET Class that loads a list of files/URLs and displays them in the menu of Windows Forms application .NET 2.0, VS2005, C# 2.0, Windows, Dev, Intermediate	Chris Hambleton	4.20
Transparent Menu Updated: 8 Jun 2004   An article on creating transparent menus for your applications VC6, VC7, Win2K, WinXP, VS.NET2002, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Derick Cyril Thomas	4.19
Almost Office2003 - Getting rid of the margin in MenuItems Updated: 10 Mar 2006   A tutorial on using the IExtenderProvider. .NET 1.1, WinXP, VS.NET2003, C#, Dev, Intermediate	Julian Ott	4.19
Insert your Logo between caption bar and menu bar Updated: 16 Jan 2000   Give your apps a unique look by adding a logo to your menu. VC6, NT4, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Wooseok Seo	4.15
Getting a Handler Function to a Specific Popup Menu Updated: 2 Feb 2006   This article explains how to get a call to a handler, when a specific popup-menu is about to be opened. C++, Windows, Visual Studio, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Ohad Redlich	4.12
Working with OwnerDraw Menus in VB.NET Updated: 17 Nov 2003   This article describes the processes involved with using owner draw menu items .NET 1.0, VS.NET2002, VB, Windows, Dev, Beginner	GregOsborne	4.03
Adding icons to menus in VB.NET Updated: 24 Jun 2002   A simple extension of the menu control that displays icons. .NET 1.0, VS.NET2002, VB, Windows, Dev, Intermediate	Retana Padilla	4.00
Changing the number of items that appear in the Most Recently Used List (MRU) Updated: 9 Apr 2003   How to change the number of items that appear in the Most Recently Used List (MRU). VC6, VC7, Visual Studio, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Jason Walsh	4.00
MRU Menu Class Updated: 8 May 2004   MRU Menu class is basically an ArrayList that will automatically populate a MenuItem in a MainMenu control. It will display the 5 most recent entries and exposes a Click event for you to respond to. You can also save the list to a file with the provided properties. .NET 1.0, VS.NET2002, VB, Windows, Dev, Intermediate	chad_ross	4.00
How to create owner drawn menus - Step by Step Updated: 16 May 2004   This tutorial explains how to create owner drawn menus step by step VC6, VC7, VC7.1, WinXP, Visual Studio, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Kevin Stumpf	3.93
Flat VS.NET Style Menus - Even on Windows 98 Updated: 3 Sep 2003   Flat VS.NET style menus - Even on Windows 98 .NET 1.1, NT4, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, VS.NET2003, VB, Dev, Intermediate	Giancarlo Aguilera	3.89
Adding Images to Menu Updated: 14 Nov 2002   Adding images to MenuItems .NET 1.0, Win2K, WinXP, VS.NET2002, C#, Dev, Intermediate	SeeSharp	3.86
Issues with popup menu owned by a non CFrameWnd derived class Updated: 2 Nov 2000   How to handle UpdateCommandUI messages for menus not owned by CFrameWnd windows VC6, NT4, Win2K, Visual Studio, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Cheeran Santhosh	3.84
A simple PerformanceCounter StatusStripItem Updated: 19 Feb 2007   An article about how to use a PerformanceCounter as a small chart in a status strip. .NET 2.0, VS2005, C# 2.0, Windows, Dev, Intermediate	don!marco	3.83
Switching language of Menu using C# and XML Updated: 17 Aug 2005   Switching the language of a menu. .NET 1.1, Win2K, WinXP, VS.NET2003, C#, XML, Dev, WinForms, Intermediate	Phan Tai Phu	3.79
Subclassed System Menu Updated: 17 Feb 2004   Implementation of a subclassed system menu for non standard UIs. .NET 1.0, .NET 1.1, NT4, VS.NET2003, VB, Dev, Intermediate	Mark Woan	3.74
ActionMenuStrip/OptionMenuStrip: Generic MenuStrips Configured by an Enum T Updated: 7 Jun 2006   MenuStrips automatically filled using enums as templates. .NET 2.0, VS2005, C#, Windows, Dev, Intermediate	OrlandoCurioso	3.67
Creating and Installing Internet Explorer Context Menu using C# Updated: 10 Feb 2008   Add an Internet Explorer context menu using an installer class WinXP, Win2003, Vista, VS2005, C# 1.0, C# 2.0, C# 3.0, C#, Javascript, Windows, Win32, Visual Studio, Dev, Beginner	Riad MS Afyouni	3.67
Populating Menu Control in ASP.NET 2.0 - using different data sources Updated: 7 Oct 2005   An article on how to populate the Menu control in ASP.NET 2.0 using different data sources. C#, Windows, .NET, Visual Studio, Dev, Intermediate	azamsharp	3.65
A toobar color picker - Unedited Updated: 21 Sep 2007   A toobar color picker .NET 1.1, .NET 2.0, VS.NET2003, VS2005, C# 1.0, C# 2.0, Windows, Dev, Beginner	mksams	3.61
CmenuModifier - an owner draw image menu - Unedited Updated: 3 Jun 2008   CmenuModifier - an owner draw image menu NT4, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, Vista, C++, Windows, Win Mobile, MFC, Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced	includeh10	3.53
Merging Two Menus Updated: 15 Nov 2001   This function will merge two menues VC6, NT4, Win2K, Visual Studio, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Oskar Wieland	3.52
Improvement of the .NET Menu Style class Updated: 14 Jan 2003   This is an improvement by Francesco Natali over an improvement by Sajith M of the "Visual Studio .NET Menu Style" by Carlos H. Perez .NET 1.0, Win2K, WinXP, VS.NET2002, C#, Dev, Intermediate	Francesco Natali	3.45
Dynamic Menu Creation Updated: 24 Sep 2002   Dynamically create menus whose structure is defined in an Access database. .NET 1.0, Win2K, WinXP, VS.NET2002, C#, Dev, Intermediate	Marc Clifton, Martin Robins	3.39
A Simple way to switch from one menu set to another Updated: 5 Jun 2002   Replace your current menus with another set of menus with this function VC6, VC7, Win2K, WinXP, Visual Studio, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	dazinith	3.33
Tooltips for Menu Item and popup menuitem Updated: 19 Nov 2003   Simple and best way to add tooltips to the menu items. All you have to do is simply include the header file and call Create and hook the WM_MENUSELECT message. VC6, VC7, VC7.1, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	venu8000	3.17
LAN Messenger Updated: 19 Aug 2004   A tool for communicating with the computers across the network. .NET 1.0, .NET 1.1, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, VS.NET2002, VB, Dev, Intermediate	kennedy_franklin	3.17
Delete Sub Menu Updated: 27 Apr 2004   How to add delete submenu to the file menu of Document/View program in VC++. VC6, VC7, VC7.1, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, Visual Studio, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Priyank Bolia	3.13
Menu sidebar made easy Updated: 1 Apr 2005   A menu class with sidebar and color support. VC6, VS6, Windows, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Nisamudheen	3.08
Dynamic submenus Updated: 20 Mar 2000   Some handy functions for adding and deleting submenus and menuitems in runtime VC6, NT4, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Anneke Sicherer-Roetman	3.05
Dynamically Build Your Menu and/or Toolbar Updated: 12 May 2005   Build a menu and/or a toolbar dynamically without using resource files (well, almost). VC6, NT4, Win2K, WinXP, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	John Simmons / outlaw programmer	3.03
A Transparent menu synchronizing system Updated: 23 Feb 2004   An article about menu enable/disable management in an semi-automated way. VC6, VC7, Win2K, WinXP, Visual Studio, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Vasian Cepa	3.00
CMenuEx - Ownerdrawn Menu Updated: 27 Aug 2004   An easy-to-use ownerdrawn menu, derived from CMenu. VC7.1, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, VS.NET2003, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	C. Bügenburg	2.83
Dynamic Menu Strip Updated: 8 Oct 2008   This article will show you how to create the items (parents and children) in a MenuStrip, dynamically, from a single database table. C#, Windows, .NET, Dev, LINQ, Intermediate	Harvey Saayman	2.75
ButtonMenu - a.k.a. a simple hack for a nice gui - Unedited Updated: 6 Jun 2006   Developing a nice menu look using only C# C#, Windows, .NET, Visual Studio, Dev, Beginner	lbenini	2.74
CMenuEX - A bitmap menu class Updated: 4 Jan 2001   Implementing an Ownerdrawn menu VC6, NT4, Win2K, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Norm .net	2.67
Enhancements for Jim Koornneef 's CGradientMenu class Updated: 27 Oct 2004   Enhancements for Jim Koornneef 's GradientMenu class on CodeProject C++, Windows, Visual Studio, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Michael Heber	2.10
A higher fidelity mimic of flat menu to VS.NET 2003 - Unedited Updated: 7 Aug 2007   Mimic the VS.NET 2003 menu style by improving the existing work .NET 1.1, VS.NET2003, C# 1.0, Windows, Dev, Intermediate	slimzhao	2.09
How to use popup-menu to simulate menu assigned to window? - Unedited Updated: 25 Oct 2005   for the window skined with no-regular region, the menu assigned to window is difficult to be placed on it's normal location, so it does not work. I will introduce to you a way that use popup-menu to simulate menu assigned to window. VC6, VC7, VC7.1, Win2K, WinXP, VS.NET2003, MFC, Dev, Advanced	goodboyws	1.25
Universal menu command handle pattern - Unedited Updated: 8 Oct 2006   Universal menu command handle pattern .NET 1.1, VS.NET2003, C# 1.0, Windows, Dev, Intermediate	yfyuan	1.00
Menus and Toolbars			top
Title / Updated	Author	Score
An easy way to add a Ribbon Panel Office 2007 style Updated: 18 Apr 2007   GNU code of RibbonPanel, free software for personal and nonlucrative use, for rest please contact me .NET 2.0, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, Vista, VS2005, VB 8.0, C#, Dev, WinForms, Design, Intermediate	Juan Pablo G.C.	4.76
Another ToolBox Control Updated: 19 Oct 2005   Another Visual Studio like ToolBox control. .NET 1.1, Win2K, WinXP, VS.NET2003, C#, GDI+, Dev, Intermediate	Aju.George	4.68
MozBar Updated: 29 Sep 2005   A flexible toolbar very much like the toolbar in FireFox Options dialog. Win2K, WinXP, C#, .NET, Visual Studio, GDI+, Dev, Intermediate	Patrik Bohman	4.61
Circular Menu Component Updated: 21 Jan 2005   Describes the use and architecture of an animated, circularly arranged pop-up menu control written in C#. .NET 1.1, VS.NET2002, VS.NET2003, C#, VB, Windows, GDI+, Architect, Dev, WinForms, Intermediate	Mark J Biddlecom	4.55
Flat-style menu bar and popup menu control for WinForms Updated: 1 Feb 2006   A custom control for adding flat-style menu bars, navigation bars, or popup menus to your WinForms application. .NET 1.1, VS.NET2003, C#, Windows, Dev, WinForms, Intermediate	nschan	4.51
Component for customizing menu shortcuts Updated: 21 Oct 2008   A component that allows the customization of menu shortcuts. This can be useful for barrier free applications. C#, .NET, Dev, WinForms, Intermediate	Günther M. FOIDL	4.33
FishEye Menu in Winforms Updated: 12 Mar 2007   Brief How-To on a FishEye Menu .NET 2.0, WinXP, VS2005, C# 2.0, Dev, Beginner	Matias Szulman	4.19
Dynamic MainMenu formation in WinForm Application using DataSet Updated: 24 Feb 2004   Dynamic MainMenu formation in WinForm application using DataSet. .NET 1.0, .NET 1.1, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, VS.NET2003, C#, Dev, Intermediate	Amalorpavanathan Yagulasamy(AMAL)	3.57
Putting Images Next To MenuItems In A Menu in C# Updated: 12 Jun 2003   Putting Images Next To MenuItems In A Menu in C#.NET .NET 1.0, .NET 1.1, Win2K, WinXP, VS.NET2002, C#, Dev, Beginner	KingTermite	3.55
FlatMenusForm - a class, which makes the default 3D menus look flat Updated: 31 May 2003   How to change the default 3D look in Windows 9x, NT and WinXP classic appearance menus. .NET 1.0, VS.NET2002, C#, Windows, Dev, Intermediate	Georgi Atanasov	3.48
MenuDecorator - Helper Class to Diagnose your Main Menu Contents Updated: 30 Jun 2008   A class to colorize and enable the implemented main menu options in one step .NET 2.0, C# 2.0, VS2008, Windows, Dev, Intermediate	Jaime Olivares	3.47
Creating WPF-Like Dynamic Menus on XP using LinqToSQL and the new Telerik RadCarousel Control - Unedited Updated: 26 May 2008   A project to demonstrate the WPF-Like user interface functionality of a Carousel Menu on Windows XP WinXP, Vista, SQL 2005, C# 3.0, VS2008, C#, SQL, Windows, Win32, SQL Server, Visual Studio, Architect, Dev, WPF, WinForms, Design, LINQ, Intermediate	Ken Norwick