Datagridview doesn't display context menu?

[Brett Romero]

I have a simple test app with one form, one datagridview, and a
contextmenustrip. I've assigned the menustrip to the datagridview and
given the grid one column. There isn't any data in the grid. I never
see the context menu appear when I right click the grid. Any
suggestions?

Thanks,
Brett

 

[PS]

I have a simple test app with one form, one datagridview, and a
contextmenustrip. I've assigned the menustrip to the datagridview and
given the grid one column. There isn't any data in the grid. I never
see the context menu appear when I right click the grid. Any
suggestions?

Does the context menu have any menu items?

PS

 

[Brett Romero]

Does the context menu have any menu items?

Yes - one, which is visible.

 

[PS]

Yes - one, which is visible.

I have no idea at all then. I followed your steps exactly and it worked for
me. Start a new project and try it again.

PS

 

[Guest]

I'm don't know why the menu is not showing, but if all else fails you can
always explicitly 'Show' the menu from the RightClick event:
YourMenu.Show(System.Windows.Forms.Cursor.Position);
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[Brett Romero]

Ok, my fault all the way around. At design time, I need to add a
toolstripmenuitem to my contextmenustrip. It looked like an item was
already there at design time in it's collection. But once I clicked
Add (from clicking the collection property), I saw a child appear and
new that was my mistake.

The problem at run time is the datagridview will allow you to set
grid.contextmenu and fully intialize menu items. However, I can't get
it to work at all. This property isn't available at design
time...oddly. But if you follow the above for contextmenustrip, it
also works at runtime.

Does any one know if a datagridview's context menu property actually
works, similar to a regular datagrid.contextmenu.

Thanks and sorry for the hassle,
Brett