Merging menustrip items from MDI child into parent's menu

Question

I have a MDI child form which has got some menu options under File tag. Also I have some menu options under the same File tag in the MDI parent form. How to merge the options under the File menu so that they appear under a single File menu when the child form is maximized. I tried the steps given in the following stackoverflow questions but I did not get the desired solution.

Merge menu strip items for MDI windows

Merge menu items from MDI child into container's menu

Following the steps given in the above questions, I have two File menus appearing in the menu bar.

How to resolve this?

Reza Aghaei · Accepted Answer · 2015-10-27T07:14:26.873

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I used this solution:

Set the MergeAction property of your mdi child File menu to MatchOnly
Set the Visible property of the menu strip of your child mdi form to false

edited Oct 27 '15 at 07:14

answered Oct 27 '15 at 07:06

Reza Aghaei

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I tried your solution, but the contents of the file menu of child form disappeared – kakkarot Oct 27 '15 at 07:11
Probably you have made a mistake when setting property values, the screenshot has taken from that settings. Pay attention to steps and let me know the result:) – Reza Aghaei Oct 27 '15 at 07:14
I tried everything still not getting the desired result. – kakkarot Oct 27 '15 at 08:21
Sorry. Got it correct now. There was an ambiguity between &File(in child) and File(in parent). Now I changed both to &File and it worked. Thanks :) – kakkarot Oct 27 '15 at 08:30
You are welcome, happy to hear that you made it work :) – Reza Aghaei Oct 27 '15 at 09:37
Is there a way to set the order of menu items manually after merging – kakkarot Oct 27 '15 at 10:05
Yes, there is, you can set `MergeAction` of menu items of your child window to `Insert` and set suitable `MergeIndex` for them. – Reza Aghaei Oct 27 '15 at 10:28

Merging menustrip items from MDI child into parent's menu

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