Quick Start

The following quick start guide is intended to get you up and running with the Menu control. In this quick start, you start with creating a new application, adding the Menu control to it and then adding the MenuItems to the Menu control.

Create a WinUI Application and add References

1. In Visual Studio, create a new WinUI App. For detailed steps, see Configure WinUI Application.
2. In the Solution Explorer, right click Dependencies and select Manage NuGet Packages.
3. In NuGet Package Manager, select nuget.org as the Package source.
4. Search and select the following package and click Install.
   • C1.WinUI.Menu

Configure the Menu control

1. Declare the namespace using the following code in XAML:
   

   xmlns:c1 ="using:C1.WinUI.Menu"
   

2. Place the cursor between the <Grid></Grid> tag and add the following code to create a menu using the C1Menu class, set its orientation and alignment.
   

   <c1:C1Menu x:Name="WordMenu" Orientation="Horizontal" VerticalAlignment="Top"></c1:C1Menu>
   

3. Add items to the menu using C1MenuItem class using the following code.

   <c1:C1MenuItem Header="File">
       <c1:C1MenuItem Header="New">
           <c1:C1MenuItem Header="Document"/>
           <c1:C1MenuItem Header="Project"/>
       </c1:C1MenuItem>
       <c1:C1MenuItem Header="Open">
           <c1:C1MenuItem Header="Document"/>
           <c1:C1MenuItem Header="Project"/>
           <c1:C1MenuItem Header="Recent Document 1">
           </c1:C1MenuItem>
           <c1:C1MenuItem Header="Recent Document 2">
           </c1:C1MenuItem>
       </c1:C1MenuItem>
       <c1:C1MenuItem Header="Close Solution"/>
       <c1:C1MenuItem Header="Save"/>
       <c1:C1MenuItem Header="Exit"/>
   </c1:C1MenuItem>
   <c1:C1MenuItem Header="Edit">
       <c1:C1MenuItem Header="Undo"/>
       <c1:C1MenuItem Header="Redo"/>
   </c1:C1MenuItem>
   <c1:C1MenuItem Header="Build"/>
   

Build and Run the Project

1. Click Build | Build Solution to build the project.
2. Press F5 to run the project.