Adding EventHandlers to a Dynamic ContextMenuStrip

[jrv]

Hello all,

First off, I am fairly new to this, so please forgive me if this turns out to be a fairly "basic" question.

I am creating a ContextMenuStrip for a NotifyIcon, which is populated by a list of servers at runtime in an XML document on our network. That works fine. I am having difficulty in adding the click event handlers for those dynamically added items. I have found examples around on the web, but they were either incomplete snippets or I am missing something else, such as a declaration or something. Here is the code for the Context Menu:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Data;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using System.Xml;

namespace MKB_Remote_Desktop
{
    public partial class MKBRemoteDesktopForm : Form
    {
        public MKBRemoteDesktopForm()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
            populateMenu();
        }

        public void populateMenu()
        {
            mnuContext.Items.Clear();

            mnuContext.Items.Add("Exit");
            mnuContext.Items.Add("-");
            mnuContext.Items.Add("Configuration");
            mnuContext.Items.Add("Refresh");
            mnuContext.Items.Add("-");
            
            string xmlsvrname;

            XmlTextReader readXml = new XmlTextReader("\\\\***\\servers.xml");
            readXml.Read();
            
            while (readXml.Read())
            {
                switch (readXml.NodeType)
                {
                    case XmlNodeType.Element:
                        break;

                    case XmlNodeType.Text:
                        xmlsvrname = readXml.Value;
                        mnuContext.Items.Add(xmlsvrname); //Need handler for these items
                        break;

                    case XmlNodeType.EndElement:
                        break;
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

I have been trying to figure out:

mnuContext.Items.Add(xmlsvrname, new EventHandler..(Don't know what at put here));

But I am not sure what to reference..

Thanks in advance,

Jack V


EDIT: Sorry - posting the message obliterated the indentations in the code. Added code tag

EDIT2: The ContextMenuStrip (mnuContext) itself is not dynamically generated. I added it via the design editor.

[jrv]

I figured it out -

I defined the eventhandler using:

mnuContext.ItemClicked += new ToolStripItemClickedEventHandler(mnuContext_ItemClicked);

then wrote the handler as:

void mnuContext_ItemClicked(object sender, ToolStripItemClickedEventArgs e)
        {
            if (e.ClickedItem.Text == "Exit")
            {
                Application.Exit();
            }
        }

(As a simple example).

Hope this helps anyone else with the same problem.

I was confused because most of the examples on the web still use the older ContextMenu, not the ContextMenuStrip, which has some different properties.

[yraen]

Another thing to consider is nearly every object in Visual C# has a .Tag property that can be used to store pretty much anything you want. This allows you to have a programmatically created button with .Text = "Server_01" and the .Tag = "172.20.20.20" (just a random idea).

[jrv]

I was not aware of the .Tag property, thank you very much.