Add ites to munustrip while running?

[CoBHC]

I want to create somewhat of a bookmarks menuitem for a project, but I need to know how to be able to add items to a menustrip item. Like how bookmarks are in firefox or any other program. Can anyone help out?

[MaximilianMayrhofer]

If you want these menuitems to be saved, then you should look into serializing them into an xml file for loading at runtime.

[CoBHC]

If you want these menuitems to be saved, then you should look into serializing them into an xml file for loading at runtime.

Well, I would need to save them too, but what I'm asking is how to actually add the items.

[ForumAccount]

A MenuStrip is a collection of ToolMenuStripItems. Each ToolMenuStripItem is also a collection of ToolMenuStripItems. With that said, in your code, all you have to do is add an item to whichever ToolMenuStripItem you want.

Let's pretend you have a MenuStrip with a ToolMenuStripItem called tsmBookmarks, and Button1 for adding the items:

Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
        Me.tsmBookmarks.DropDownItems.Add("Your bookmark here")
        'or
        DirectCast(Me.MenuStrip1.Items("tsmBookmarks"), ToolStripMenuItem).DropDownItems.Add("Your bookmark here")
    End Sub

What if you want to capture when their clicked? Let's add an event handler to those ToolStripMenuItems that get created:

Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
        AddHandler Me.tsmBookmarks.DropDownItems.Add("Your bookmark here").Click, AddressOf tsmBookmarks_ItemClicked
    End Sub
 
    Private Sub tsmBookmarks_ItemClicked(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs)
        MessageBox.Show("You clicked: " & DirectCast(sender, ToolStripMenuItem).Text)
    End Sub

Now since you said it was a Bookmark you could attach in the tag of the ToolStripMenuItem the web address or something, like so:

Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
        Dim tsmBookmarks_SubItem As New ToolStripMenuItem With {.Text = "VB Forums", .Tag = "http://www.vbforums.com"}
        Me.tsmBookmarks.DropDownItems.Add(tsmBookmarks_SubItem)
 
        AddHandler tsmBookmarks_SubItem.Click, AddressOf tsmBookmarks_ItemClicked
    End Sub
    Private Sub tsmBookmarks_ItemClicked(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs)
        Dim ItemClicked As ToolStripMenuItem = DirectCast(sender, ToolStripMenuItem)
 
        MessageBox.Show("You clicked: " & ItemClicked.Text)
        MessageBox.Show("Make web browser navigate to tag here: " & ItemClicked.Tag.ToString())
 
    End Sub