Despite Microsoft's move towards so called ''Ribbon'' based navigation, every other application still relies on menus to provide an easy way for users to navigate around a user interface. In fact, the jury is still out on whether ''Ribbon'' style interfaces of the type found in Microsoft Office 2007 are actually easier to use than menus.

Despite Microsoft's controversial move towards so called ''Ribbon'' based navigation, just about every other application still relies on menus to provide an easy way for users to navigate around a user interface. In fact, the jury is still out on whether ''Ribbon'' style interfaces of the type found in Microsoft Office 2007 are actually easier to use than menus.

Since it is almost impossible create an application without needing a menu of some sort, this chapter is dedicated entirely to the topic of creating top-level menus. The next chapter will cover([[Creating Context Menus in Visual Basic]]). As you will see as we work through this topic, Visual Basic combined with Visual Studio make the creation of menus extremely easy.

Since it is almost impossible create an application without needing a menu of some sort, this chapter is dedicated entirely to the topic of creating top-level menus. The next chapter will cover([[Creating Context Menus in Visual Basic]]). As you will see as we work through this topic, Visual Basic combined with Visual Studio make the creation of menus extremely easy.

[[Image:visual_studio_new_menu.jpg| Visual Basic Add New Menu]]

[[Image:visual_studio_new_menu.jpg| Visual Basic Add New Menu]]