A Menu Control/Component by Binarymission Technologies Ltd

All that the standard .NET framework provides is an extensibility feature where a developer needs to completely owner draw the menuitems, even to get a basic need fulfilled - such as associating an image/icon with the menu item.

To offer developers an extended "Ownerdrawn" and ready-to-use feature-rich MenuItem component, Binarymission now proudly presents its flagship .NET control - BinaryMenuItem .NET©.

BinaryMenuItem .NET extends the .NET framework's MenuItem object, by providing a feature-rich & simple to use collection of properties in order to enable you to display bitmapped Menus (including ContextMenu) drawn with your chosen colors for various aspects like - colors for MenuItem hovering, Menu selection, custom colors for drawing "Checked" menu items and "RadioButton" enabled menu items.

Additionally, the component also exposes various properties to let you set alpha-blending factors for your various chosen colors.

The component is very easy to use - To build menus, you can continue to use the standard .NET Menu control and just replace in your code, the use of standard .NET MenuItem object with BinaryMenuItem along with the appropriate additional object constructor values.

With BinaryMenuItem .NET, you can now build your own custom menus, and also the Windows XP & VS.NET style emulating .NET Menus in minutes.

In addition to the standard .NET framework’s MenuItem functionality, BinaryMenuItem .NET component comes pre-Ownerdrawn and ready-to-use and offers the following rich features:

Simplified User-interface rendering: The component comes fully "pre-ownerdrawn", and hence all you need to do is just to set its easy-to-use properties in order to customise your menu rendering!
You do not need to owner-draw the MenuItem object any more! Just set simple properties and run your application.

Image support: The component comes with direct support for associating icons with menu items, including a seperate image-holder side bar (emulating the VS.NET style)

Ability to fully support Menu painting with custom colors (with Alpha-blending support): By setting simple properties, you can set custom colors for menu background, item selection & hovering, and painting the checkmark and radio buttons (unlike the standard .NET Framework MenuItem object which only lets you display the Radiobutton/CheckMarks in Black color)

Direct support for dynamic property changes: The component also comes with built-in support for handling dynamic property changes (for example, your changes to MenuItem colors at runtime) with ease - this feature lets you change the menuitem colors and its alpha-blend factors at run-time.