# WinUI Menu Overview

The RadialMenu is an innovative and space-saving toolbar providing the end-user with variety of options to choose from. The RadialMenu is especially useful on touch devices as they enable the developers to place many commands and options in a flexible and dynamic UI container.

> The Telerik's RadRadialMenu can be also used as a context menu.

#### Figure 1: RadRadialMenu Overview

![WinUI RadRadialMenu RadRadialMenu Overview](https://www.telerik.com/winui/documentation/assets/a74fbab91efed663fc0eb834b4152a55/radialmenu-overview.png)

## Key Features

Here are the key features of the RadRadialMenu.

* **Nested Items**: RadRadialMenuItems can have nested items. This way you can easily implement more complex layouts.
* **ContextMenu usage**: The control can be used as a context menu for another **FrameworkElement**. Read more about this in the [RadRadialMenu as a ContextMenu](https://www.telerik.com/winui/documentation/controls/radradialmenu/features/context-menu) section.
* **Triggers for actions (Tap/Focus/Hover)**: The RadRadialMenu can be shown on different user actions: Tap, Focus, and Hover. In a case you want to show it on different action, you can create custom RadRadialMenu behavior. [Read more](https://www.telerik.com/winui/documentation/controls/radradialmenu/how-to/howto-custom-triggerbehavior)
* **Selection**:  The control supports selection functionality that allows you to highlight items upon click or setting a property.
* **Commands**: RadRadialMenu gives you the ability to customize the available commands.

> You can check out our demos application, which showcases the controls from the Telerik UI for WinUI suite. You can take a look at the [Examples Application](https://www.telerik.com/winui/documentation/examples/demos-app) article, which describes how you can navigate to the download page.

## See Also

* [Getting Started](https://www.telerik.com/winui/documentation/controls/radradialmenu/getting-started)
* [Visual Structure](https://www.telerik.com/winui/documentation/controls/radradialmenu/visual-structure)

## Telerik UI for WinUI Support and Learning Resources

* [Telerik UI for WinUI RadialMenu Homepage](https://www.telerik.com/winui/radialmenu)
* [Get Started with the Telerik UI for WinUI RadialMenu](https://www.telerik.com/winui/documentation/controls/radradialmenu/getting-started)
* [Telerik UI for WinUI API Reference](https://docs.telerik.com/devtools/winui/api/)
* [Getting Started with Telerik UI for WinUI Components](https://www.telerik.com/winui/documentation/getting-started/first-steps-nuget)
* [Telerik UI for WinUI RadialMenu Forums](https://www.telerik.com/forums/winui)