How to disable/enable Menu Strip?

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How to disable/enable Menu Strip?

VAer-4038 771

I have a mdi parent form, let's call it MainForm, which has menustrip. Each menu button opens a child form.

I have a child form called LoginForm

When MainForm is loaded, LoginForm will show up. But at the meanwhile, I would like to disable menustrip or gray out menu strip, whatever it is called, user shouldn't do anything before logging in.

So how should I write the code(in MainForm) to disable menu strip?

After successfully logging in, the menu strip should be enabled. So this piece of code will be in LoginForm. How should I write the code (in Login Form) to enable menu strip? The issue is: menu strip belongs to MainForm, how can LoginForm code reaches MainForm menu strip?

Thanks.

Tianyu Sun-MSFT 34,441 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff

2021-01-04T07:55:04.597+00:00

Hi @VAer-4038 , thank you for taking time to post this issue in Microsoft Q&A forum. I think @Castorix31 had shared a good and brief example with you. Just use the property(Enabled) of the menu strip and set it( Enabled ) to false to disable the Menu Strip and true to enable the Menu Strip. For example: this.menuStrip1.Enabled = false.

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Tianyu Sun-MSFT 34,441 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff

2021-01-04T07:55:04.597+00:00

Hi @VAer-4038 , thank you for taking time to post this issue in Microsoft Q&A forum. I think @Castorix31 had shared a good and brief example with you. Just use the property(Enabled) of the menu strip and set it( Enabled ) to false to disable the Menu Strip and true to enable the Menu Strip. For example: this.menuStrip1.Enabled = false.

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Castorix31 90,686

See for example : How to Enable and Disable the menustrip in mdiparent

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