The appearance of the menu can be modeled entirely with images, without using skins
or Themes. The <strong>RadMenuItem </strong>class exposes the <strong>Image</strong>
property which you can use to set the image. You can also add an image list to your menu by setting the <strong>ImageList </strong>property, either via VS2005 or programmatically.
If you set the images programatically, you can have one image for the initial state
of a menu item and another image for the hover state. Just use the <strong>ImageList
</strong>to se the images:<br />
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<em>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; radMenu1.ImageList = imageList1;</em><br />
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and then add an image to some of the <strong>MenuItems </strong>by setting the index of
the image in the <strong>ImageList </strong>in Visual Studio 2005 or by:<br />
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<em>
&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; radMenuItem1.ImageIndex = 0;</em><br />
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The relation between image and text is determined by <strong>TextImageRelation</strong>
property.
Programmatically you can set
it in the following
way:<br />
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<em>
&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; radMenuItem1.TextImageRelation = TextImageRelation.ImageBeforeText;</em><br />
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<strong>TextImageRelation</strong> enumeration defines the following values: <strong>
    Overlay</strong>, <strong>ImageAboveText</strong>, <strong>TextAboveImage</strong>,
<strong>ImageBeforeText</strong>, and <strong>TextBeforeImage</strong>.programmatically