This article presents a flat-style menu control which can be used to implement menu bars, simple navigation bars, or popup menus that can appear anywhere on your form. The FlatMenuBar control provides support for menu bars while the FlatPopupMenu control can be used to display popup (or context) menus. My objective with these controls was to have a visually clean menu appearance and simpler UI navigation model, much like the menus that you see on some web sites. I also wanted to support certain effects such as gradient color backgrounds for popup menus. But my intent is not for this control to replace or act as a substitute for the existing Win Forms menu functionality in the .NET class fr a mework. For example, some standard menu features such as keyboard navigation are not currently supported.

(using visual studio 2005)-This article presents a flat-style menu control which can be used to implement menu bars, simple navigation bars, or popup menus that can appear anywhere on your form. The FlatMenuBar control provides support for menu bars while the FlatPopupMenu control can be used to display popup (or context) menus. My objective with these controls was to have a visually clean menu appearance and simpler UI navigation model, much like the menus that you see on some web sites. I also wanted to support certain effects such as gradient color backgrounds for popup menus. But my intent is not for this control to replace or act as a substitute for the existing Win Forms menu functionality in the. NET class fr a mework. For example, some standard menu features such as keyboard navigation are not currently supported. ( using visual studio 2005)