Microsoft Visual Basic 2010 Step by Step eBook

Chapter 4 Working with Menus, Toolbars, and Dialog Boxes 119

10. Click the Clock menu.

The shortcut keys are listed beside the Time and Date commands, as shown in the

following screen shot. Visual Basic adds these key combinations when you define the

shortcuts by using the ShortcutKeys property.

11. Close the program.

The Menu program closes, and the development environment appears.

Nice work! You’re ready to move deeper into writing programs now, in the part of the book I

call “Programming Fundamentals .”

Chapter 4 Quick Reference

To Do This

Create a menu item Click the MenuStrip control, and draw a menu on your form. Click the

Type Here tag on your form, and type the name of the menus and

commands that you want to create.

Add an access key to

a menu item

Click the menu item twice to display the I-beam, and then type an

ampersand (&) followed by the letter you want to use as an access key.

Assign a shortcut key

to a menu item

Set the ShortcutKeys property of the menu item by using the

Properties window. A list of common shortcut keys is provided.

Change the order of

menu items

Drag the menu item you want to move to a new location.

Add a toolbar to your

program

Click the ToolStrip control, and then draw a toolbar on your form.

Right-click buttons to customize them. Double-click buttons and write

event procedures to configure them.