WinForms Menu Overview

RadMenu enables you to integrate attractive and flexible menus on Forms within your Windows applications.

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Figure 1: RadMenu

WinForms RadMenu Overview

In addition to all the capabilities of the standard Windows Forms MenuStrip control, RadMenu enables additional advanced capabilities for your applications.

Key Features

  • Full support for the Telerik UI for WinForms theming engine allowing you to easily construct a variety of stunning visual effects. The drop down can be animated with a number of predefined effects.

WinForms RadMenu Dark Theme

WinForms RadMenus Light Theme

  • Nesting of any other Telerik RadControl within a RadMenu, allowing you to create a menu with an embedded text box or combo box.

WinForms RadMenu Nesting

  • Menu item text displayed in a variety of formats, such as using multi-line text, and vertical or horizontal orientation.

WinForms RadMenu Multi-line Text

WinForms RadMenu Vertical Orientation

  • Images can be displayed in the background of the menu as a whole and for each menu item.

WinForms RadMenu Images as Background

Telerik UI for WinForms Learning Resources

Telerik UI for WinForms Additional Resources

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