Menu Rendermode
I have VB 2005 Express Edition Beta 2, and I like how you can have the blue bar on the left of your menus. Although what I am wondering if how to get the blue bar there when you right click in a text box and the menu shows up that contains:
Undo
Cut
Copy
Paste
Delete
Select All
The other thing I was wondering is how to get images in there place also. So for example like they have in office 2003
The menu that appears is provided by Windows directly I believe. If you override it by using ContextMenu or ContextMenuStrip then your menu gets shown instead. Therefore you'll need to create your own context menu using ContextMenuStrip. You will then have to implement the functionality for each of the menu items (which should be a couple lines of code for each one I believe). Then assign the menu to the textbox and you'll have what you want.
Note that if you look at other "modern" apps they continue to use the standard (non-blue) context menus for text boxes. You should weigh the "coolness" of the blue bar with the standard behavior that users are use to. Of course for any non-standard controls that you have (such as your main form), blue bars are just fine but you're already going to have to configure the context menus anyway.
Hope this helps,
Michael Taylor - 8/5/05
