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title: "Menu Control in WPF"
description: "In XAML and tag elements is used to create a menu control in WPF. Menus have been an integral part of any windows based application. In WPF there ar"
author: "Anonymous User"
published: 2011-04-06
updated: 2020-03-04
canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/articles/539/menu-control-in-wpf
category: "wpf"
tags: ["wpf"]
reading_time: 4 minutes
---
# Menu Control in WPF
In XAML and <[MenuItem](https://www.mindstick.com/forum/23048/menuitem-call-javascript-function) /> tag [elements](https://www.mindstick.com/forum/1440/wpf-button-with-multiple-text-elements) is used to create a [menu control](https://www.mindstick.com/interview/2227/what-does-the-orientation-property-do-in-a-menu-control) in WPF. Menus have been an integral part of any windows based application. In WPF there are two classes that are used for making menus. Menu and MenuItem class. A menu is [collection](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/1718/collections-in-java) of menu items with a command associated with each menu items. In this [article](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/view/81489/kashmir-now-after-an-year-of-abrogation-of-article-370) I will show you that how to use Menu control in WPF.\
##### Some major properties associated with menu control
- **Name**—Name [property](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/198559/an-ownership-of-property-in-hua-hin) defines a unique name to your WPF menu control.
- **Height**—Height property is used to set height of your menu control in WPF.
- **Width**—Width property is used to set Width of your menu control.
- **Margin**—Margin property is used to define margin of your menu control.
- **[Background](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/65/how-to-change-background-color-of-tab-control-in-c-sharp)**—Background property defines background of your menu control.
- **HorizontalAlignment**—HorizontalAlignment property is used to define horizontal alignment of your menu control in side [container](https://www.mindstick.com/forum/34127/extjs-how-to-set-border-for-the-container) control.
- **VerticalAlignment**—VerticalAlignment property is used to define [vertical](https://www.mindstick.com/forum/12951/how-to-fix-bootstrap-tab-vertical-with-text) alignment of your menu control.
- **ToolTip**—ToolTip defines tooltip for your menu control.
##### The following code snippet create a menu control in WPF
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##### Output of the following code snippet
##### Adding menu items and submenu items to a menu control
After adding Menu control in window the next step is to create a menu item and sub menu item in menu control. We can use element in XAML to create a menu item and use Header property of menu Item control to provide a caption to menu item control. The following code snippet represents use of menu item control in WPF.
##### A XAML code for adding menu items in menu
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##### Output of the following code is as follows
We can add separator control to create a grouping in menu items. The following XAML element is used to create a separator .
##### Following code snippet represents use of separator control
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##### Output of the following code snippet is as follows
##### Adding tooltips in menu item
We can use tool tip to give some useful information about menu item control. In XAML container element is used to create a ToolTip for menu item.
##### Following demonstration shows how to use tooltip for menu item.
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##### Output of the following code snippet is as follows
##### Responding to a click event in menu item of a menu control
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