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Associating an Accelerator Key with a Menu Item

 

The latest version of this topic can be found at Associating an Accelerator Key with a Menu Item.

Many times, you want a menu item and a keyboard combination to issue the same program command. You do this by assigning the same resource identifier (ID) to the menu item and to an entry in your application's accelerator table. You then edit the menu item's caption to show the name of the accelerator. For more information on menu items and accelerator keys, see Associating a Menu Item with an Accelerator Key.

For information on adding resources to managed projects, please see Resources in Applications in the .NET Framework Developer's Guide. For information on manually adding resource files to managed projects, accessing resources, displaying static resources, and assigning resources strings to properties, see Walkthrough: Using Resources for Localization with ASP.NET.

Requirements

Win32

See Also

Accelerator Editor
Resource Editors