Hi all,

I am working through this book to teach myself C#. So far it is going well and apart from there being not enough explanation at times, i have been able to get everything to work.

However, now I am stuck.

I am working on the Simple Edit program and in lesson 6 ex 1 you have to add the tool strip container, toolstrips and the rich text box. After adding these items and setting their events etc, I ran the program and noticed that the context menu no longer works.

My first thought was that because i added the context menu before the container with the rich text box that the context menu order was behind them.

I deleted the context menu and re-added it after the container (with richtext box and toolstrips) but still when I run the program, the right click context menu doesnt work.

I am hoping i dont have to remake the program, although, better now than later.

Anyone know why the context menu would stop working after i add the container? Before adding, it was fine.

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I couldnt help myself and continued to look through my program for the solution and found it.

In the Rich Text Box properties, I hadn't selected the context menu control in the ContextMenuStrip property.

Once selected, it works fine now.

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Well done! It's always nice when someone answers their own question before anyone else gets to it

Related Tip: If you copy and paste a control like this from another Visual Studio session, be sure the controls to which it should be attached already exist where you paste it. That way it will often pick up the same connection. In this example, if you copy the ContextMenu first and then copy the RichTextBox, the RichTextBox may keep the connection to the ContextMenu. If you copy and paste the RichTextBox first, when you paste it the ContextMenu won't be there yet so the RichTextBox's ContextMenu property will reset to nothing.

Similarly if you copy and paste controls within the same project, you may sometimes face similar issues.

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Rod Stephens, Microsoft MVP

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