How to an add an icon to a MenuItem

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Hello!

I have a ContextMenu with assorted items added.

How do I add icons onto these items?

I have googled, but the only available answers deal with ContextMenuStrips, and not ContextMenu's.

What I want to do:

ContextMenu trayMenu;
trayMenu.MenuItems.Add("Hello");
trayMenu.MenuItems[0].Icon = ....;

Unfortunately the ".Icon" property is non-existent.

See screenshots for clarification.

Mine looks like:

http://i52.tinypic.com/5oz586.png[^]

I want it to look like:

http://i52.tinypic.com/zx8u1y.png[^]

With those icons at the left.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Posted 29-Jun-11 14:54pm

Reelix

Updated 29-Jun-11 15:59pm

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Accepted Answer · 2011-06-29T16:27:00

Why not using ContextMenuStrip? There is nothing wrong with it.

You can use System.Windows.Forms.MenuStrip or System.Windows.Forms.<code>ContextMenuStrip. For these menus, you can use the instances of the class System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripMenuItem for items. It can be instantiated with individual image using constructors ToolStripMenuItem(String, Image), ToolStripMenuItem(String, Image, EventHandler) or ToolStripMenuItem(String, Image, ToolStripItem[]). Alternatively, this menu item can use property ImageKey or ImageIndex to select the image in the image list, which is set as a property MenuStrip or ContextMenuStrip; the property is inherited property System.Windows.Forms.ToolStrip.ImageList.
See:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.toolstrip.aspx[^],
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.menustrip.aspx[^],
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.contextmenustrip.aspx[^],
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.toolstripitem.imageindex.aspx[^],
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.toolstripitem.imagekey.aspx[^],
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.toolstripitem.imageindex.aspx[^].

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