WPF provides the Menu Control property. The Menu control derives from HeaderedItemsControl. It Horizontally stack its items. The property that the Menu adds to ItemsControl is the IsMainMenu property.

 <Menu IsMainMenu="True">
 <MenuItem Header="_File" />
 <MenuItem Header="_Edit" />
 <MenuItem Header="_Review" />
</Menu>

The MenuItem is a HeaderedItemsControl. The content of the Header property is the caption of the menu. The Itemsof a MenuItems are sub menus. The Icon property is the second content on the left of the caption.

<Grid>
<Menu IsMainMenu="True" >
 <MenuItem Header="_File" />
 <MenuItem Header="_Edit" >
 <MenuItem Header="_Cut" Command="Cut">
 <MenuItem.Icon>
 <Image Source="cut.jpg" Width="10"></Image>
 </MenuItem.Icon>
 </MenuItem>
 <MenuItem Header="_Copy" Command="Copy">
 <MenuItem.Icon>
 <Image Source="copy.jpg" Width="10"></Image>
 </MenuItem.Icon>
 </MenuItem>
 </MenuItem>
 <MenuItem Header="_View" />
</Menu>
</Grid>

The Icon property is used to draw a little image on the left. We can resize it with the help of width property. We can use Alt+ E to open the edit menu.
We can make a menu item checkable by setting its IsCheckable property to true.

MenuItem Header="_Save">
<MenuItem Header="Save" IsCheckable="True" />
 </MenuItem>

To add a keyboard shortcut to a menu item, add a underscode (_) in front of the character For example ( _Edit). This automatically sets the InputGestureText to an appropriate value. But we can also override this to proposed text by setting this property to a text of our choice.

Complete Program:

<Window x:Class="WpfApplication1.Window1"
 xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
 xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
 Title="Window1" Height="300" Width="300">
 <Grid>
 <Menu IsMainMenu="True" >
 <MenuItem Header="_File" />
 <MenuItem Header="_Edit" >
 <MenuItem Header="_Cut" Command="Cut">
 <MenuItem.Icon>
 <Image Source="cut.jpg" Width="10"></Image>
 </MenuItem.Icon>
 </MenuItem>
 <MenuItem Header="_Copy" Command="Copy">
 <MenuItem.Icon>
 <Image Source="copy.jpg" Width="10"></Image>
 </MenuItem.Icon>
 </MenuItem>
 </MenuItem>
 <MenuItem Header="_View" />
 <MenuItem Header="_Help" />
 </Menu>
 </Grid>
</Window>

Menu control in WPF