How to bind database to menu strip in windows form application?

Pravinkumar Birajdar

How to bind database to menu strip in windows form application?
I want to create dynamic menus in windows application?
plz help me....

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Dorababu Meka14y ago
Accepted answer
Create 2 tables namely tblMenu and tblsubmenu..

tblMenu shoud be like this

mnuID
Description
10
File
20
Edit

Create tblsubMenu as follows

mnuId
MenuText
10
New
10
Open
20
Cut
20
Copy

if you need you can add more

I used Mysql database you can change it to SQL if you are using SQL

check out my attachment of code inorder to find database driven menus..
Pravinkumar Birajdar14y ago
There are 10 foms in my project
Dorababu Meka14y ago
How many number of forms are there like that.. If particular Forms means we can store them in database and get them based on the ID and Permissions for that one.
Pravinkumar Birajdar14y ago
No..no...I want to retrieve name of form from database & then have to create object of that perticular form
Dorababu Meka14y ago
As per I have written for Click event try this.. Assume your Form name is Form1..

Form1 f1 = new Form1();
f1.ShowDialog(); or f1.Show();
Pravinkumar Birajdar14y ago
I want to add form name which should be opened at click event of any menu...but i couldn't understand that how to add it in database
Pravinkumar Birajdar14y ago
I want to add form name which should be opened at click event of any menu...but i couldn't understand that how to add it in database
Dorababu Meka14y ago
Didn't get what you are asking
Pravinkumar Birajdar14y ago
Thank you so much....
But plz can you tell me that how to add form name object to each menu so that it can be opened at click event
Pravinkumar Birajdar14y ago
Sorry...but I never assigned database to menu bar in asp.net also....so I don't know how to assign it... :-(
Dorababu Meka14y ago
Have you tried as per I said?
Pravinkumar Birajdar14y ago
But I want to bind menu bar in windows application
Satyapriya Nayak14y ago
http://www.dotnetspider.com/resources/26257-Database-Binding-with-Menu-Strip-n-ASP-NET.aspx
Dorababu Meka14y ago
Follow these steps..

In page load get all your necessary connections and required fields from database

if(datareader.HasRows)
{
MenuStrip menu=new MenuStrip();
menu.Items.Add(datareader[0].Tostring());
}

Try some thing like this you can also assign dataset values as per we did for combo box binding or grid binding in asp.net.

mnuID	Description
10	File
20	Edit

mnuId	MenuText
10	New
10	Open
20	Cut
20	Copy