Hi,

How do I add an item to the context menu displayed when you right-click on the caption/title bar.

The current items are:

Restore
Move
Size
Minimize
Maximize
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Close

What I would like to do is add an item below the "Close" option called "About..." that will display the application's about dialog. I know how to add a context menu to the form but I am having difficulty in getting hold of the above caption bar context menu.

Any help in this matter would be highly appreciated

Regards
Gareth

I'm not sure at all about that but I think the windows forms framework doesn't allow you to do so.

Therefore, it seems that you would need to make use of win32 API if you really want to do so using Interop.

I'm not sure at all about that but I think the windows forms framework doesn't allow you to do so.

Therefore, it seems that you would need to make use of win32 API if you really want to do so using Interop.

Thanks for the reply......

I did some more research based on your answer and it does seem indeed that the only way you can manipulate the system menu is to use the win32 API. If anybody is interesed they can search for "c# and "GetSystemMenu" in google otherwise you can refer to the following article:

http://www.codeguru.com/Csharp/Csharp/cs_misc/userinterface/article.php/c9327/

Thanks again
Gareth

You'll find a similar example on my site in both C# and VB.net.

http://www.dotnetrix.co.uk/menus.html