![]() ![]() ![]() Left-click the MenuStrip that is at the top of Form1 to select it.Net Framework would allow you to edit the MenuStrip items visually inside the design view of the form.Net Core does not. Now, you will have a MenuStrip that appears to be blank and has no items in it.Double-click the MenuStrip tool selection.Open the Toolbox (View -> Toolbox, or Ctrl+Alt+X).Your initial view will be of Form1 in design view.and it will allow you to edit the items in it, you just won't get the WYSIWYG editor for now. a ToolStrip/ToolStripItem will have an "Items" or "DropDownItems" property in the Properties window. You can still work around the lack of ToolStrip designer support by using the generic collection editor in VS. I tried that for one project I was making when the Designer wasn't yet included, and it seemed to work, though at the time there was still other stuff missing and I ended up keeping it. You should be able to switch your project over to Core and everything should (hopefully) keep working. NET Framework for the legacy Designer with all the features. One thing you can do is start building in. There are also two icons on the Layout toolbar that do the same thing.The Core Windows Forms Designer does not seem to be complete, I've been building my first app in it and it is extremely buggy, hanging VS a lot, showing outdated names for controls, refreshing the properties pane unnecessarily, on control rename keeping the old named members, showing wrong bounding rectangle for a control when changed, not allowing unbinding of events, and as you've seen, lack of design time support for ToolStrips. Select the Panel and choose "Format | Order | Bring to Front" from Visual Studio's menu.Similarly, you could right-click on MenuStrip and choose "Send to Back". This will change Panel's position in form's Controls collection to 0, making it the top of z-order. Right-click on the Panel and select "Bring to Front".To fix this at design time, we have a few options: If Panel was put in front of MenuStrip, MenuStrip would still be visible (it's docked to Top) and Panel would only occupy the remaining of form's space. Now, as you've already guessed, we need to change control's z-order to make things look right. ![]() Thus, in the previous example, the form's Controls collection order is:, and since higher-layered controls can overlap those behind them, the Panel, having Dock set to Fill, can take all the space it needs, without MenuStrip blocking its way. The control's z-order is determined by its position in container's Controls collection, with the first control in the collection being at the front (top layer) and the last at the back. Why's that? The way how controls on a form are docked is determined by the z-order. This results in Panel's top area being hidden behind the MenuStrip: For example, put a Panel and a MenuStrip on a blank form (in that exact order) and set Panel's Dock property to Fill. A typical problem is the overlapping of docked controls. Talking to other developers and hanging around newsgroups and forums I noticed quite a few people have problems arranging controls on a windows form in design time. ![]()
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