To add a new command link to the menu (C1CommandMenu or C1ContextMenu) linked by the currently selected command link, complete the following steps:

1. Right-click on an existing menu item in the C1MainMenu and select Add Child Item from the context menu.
   The Link to Command designer appears.
2. Type submenu 1 in the Text textbox field and select OK. The menu appears like the following menu:
   

To programmatically add a submenu item, complete the following steps:

1. Add the C1.Win.C1Command namespace to your references in your project.
2. Declare the namespace in your source file.

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   Imports C1.Win.C1Command

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   using C1.Win.C1Command;

3. Double-click the form to create a Form_Load event handler, then insert the following code snippets from the remaining steps into the Form_Load event handler.
4. Add a C1CommandHolder to hold the menu, then create a new main menu.

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   Dim ch As C1CommandHolder = C1CommandHolder.CreateCommandHolder(Me) Dim mm As New C1MainMenu

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   C1CommandHolder ch = C1CommandHolder.CreateCommandHolder(this); C1MainMenu mm = new C1MainMenu();

5.  Add the main menu control to your form, create the main menu to hold the commands, and then set the text property for the new menu.

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   Me.Controls.Add(mm) Dim mmenu As C1CommandMenu = CType(ch.CreateCommand(GetType(C1CommandMenu)), C1CommandMenu) mmenu.Text = "Menu 1"

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   this.Controls.Add(mm); C1CommandMenu mmenu = ch.CreateCommand(typeof(C1CommandMenu)) as C1CommandMenu; mmenu.Text = "Menu 1";

6. Add the commandlink to the new main menu, then create and set up a menu item under menu 1. Fill the menu with a command.

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   mm.CommandLinks.Add(New C1CommandLink(mmenu)) Dim submenu As C1Command = ch.CreateCommand()

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   mm.CommandLinks.Add(new C1CommandLink(mmenu)); C1Command submenu = ch.CreateCommand();

7. Add text to the new submenu item and add a new c1commandlink to the submenu item.

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   submenu.Text = "submmenu 1" 'add a new c1commandlink to the submenu item mmenu.CommandLinks.Add(New C1CommandLink(submenu))

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   submenu.Text = "submenu 1"; //add a new c1commandlink to the submenu item mmenu.CommandLinks.Add(new C1CommandLink(submenu));

   
   Your menu should appear like the following menu: