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In this section we’ll see how to add menus to a Visual Basic .NET form. These type of menus are very common to Windows programme.

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Visual Basic itself has many of these drop down menus - File, Edit, View, Project, Format, etc. And they’re very easy to add.

Start a new project. To your new form, use the toolbox to add a MenuStrip control:

Double click the control to add one to your form.

When you do, you'll notice two things.

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At the top of your form, you'll see this:

We'll see how to construct our menu soon. But notice the other things that gets added to your project. Examine the bottom of your screen, on the left. You'll see this:

This is the control itself.

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If you click on this (it's highlighted above), you'll see that the Properties box on the right changes. There are many properties for the control. But there are lots of properties for the MenuItem object. The MenuItem object is the one at the top of the form - The one that says Type Here.

To start building your menu, click inside the