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Top-level menus (the type of menus that run across the top of forms) are created using the ''Menu Strip'' control. The first step in creating a menu, therefore, is to add a Menu Strip control to the form. With your Visual Studio project loaded, and the Form to which you wish to add the menu selected, double click on the ''Menu Strip'' control in the ''Menus and Toolbars'' section of the Visual Studio Toolbox. You will notice that the Menu Strip object is added to the panel beneath the form, and that a ''Type Here'' field appears at the top of the form as follows:

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