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Mini-XMenus is a .NET component that adds custom menu items to the Windows Explorer context menu. Menu items can be selectively shown based on which items are selected in Explorer. Menu items can include custom icons, fonts and colors, sub-menus, separators and help tips. Explorer menu items may also be drawn from scratch with full OwnerDraw support.

The majority of MFC apps have always had an About... menu entry in the main window's system menu, and this was primarily because the App Wizard generated code for that by default. I wanted to do something similar in a WPF application I've been working on, and I wanted to do it in an MVVM friendly manner. In this article I'll explain a neat way of doing it so that you can easily add menu items and attach command handlers to them while retaining the basic MVVM paradigm.

Long time ago, I wondered how Microsoft Access put an Edit control on the context menu! Then I got another idea ... why don't we use any control(s) on the context menu? This will make the user interface easier to use, learn and increase productivity. The good news here is that, you can make it the same way you design a user control or a form using the Visual Studio designer..

Fine DHTML context menu with layout of Action Lists/Smart Tags known from Visual Studio.NET 2005.

A simple utility for encrypting files using 256 bit Rijndael (AES). Also, adds menu items to Windows Explorer's file context menu for easy access.

In this article, I'll be showing how you can generate a dynamic MenuStrip (.NET 2.0's replacement of the MainMenu control) via an XML Configuration file using recursion in C#. The MenuStrip will be based on XML data which contains all the details about the generated Menu. Things like: Caption, Name, Text, and the corresponding Event it has to trigger when a user clicks a MenuItem.

This is a generalized re-usable control written in such a way that it can be easily plugged in to any application based on the applications requirements.

Context menu for the custom properties in the C# PropertyGrid allowing the user to reset the properties, the same way as in Visual Studio.

A simple class that edits the registry to set up toolbar buttons, menu items and explorer bars for internet explorer

A status bar text provider for menu items and form controls in Windows Forms applications similar to the feature found in MFC and Microsoft Access applications.

A full functional treeview control for ASP.NET, including drag and drop, Ajax loading, context menu, dropdown treeview.