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A context menu is a floating menu that appears when the user performs a long-click on an element. It provides actions that affect the selected content or context frame.
Also, we have to place the menu where the right button is clicked. To do this, we will use two properties pageX and pageY of the mouse click event which will give us the coordinates where the right button was clicked. We will hide the context menu on the mouse button click if it is already being displayed.
How to add VS Code to the context menu?
To properly target VS Code, add a new code under the new vscode folder and name it “command” and adding the following to the default string “C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft VS Code\\Code.exe” “%1”
How to create context menu in Windows Forms application?
In Windows Forms, a context menu is created using the ContextMenuStrip control and its command or menu items are ToolStripMenuItem objects. Creating a Context Menu in design view: Create a new Windows Forms application and drag a ContextMenuStrip control onto the form. Type the name of the menu item in the ComboBox labeled with “Type Here”
A context menu is a menu in a GUI that appears upon user interaction, such as a right-click mouse operation. A context menu offers a limited set of choices that are available in the current state, or context, of the operating system or application. Usually the available choices are actions related to the selected object.
To deploy a customized context menu, we’ll need to prevent default behaviour, and then set up, trigger, and position our own menu. It’s a bit of work, but we’re going to do it step by step. Let’s start by creating a basic application structure so that we have something real world-ish to play with.