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This article shows you how the WinForms interface to develop third-party control menu items, the content is concise and easy to understand, can definitely make your eyes bright, through the detailed introduction of this article hope you can learn something.

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DevExpress Menu is displayed in the Visual Studio menu bar and provides the ability to run other DevExpress tools.

Note: the DevExpress menu is not available in the Express version of Visual Studio.

The menu contains the following items.

All Platforms group-contains menu items that perform operations for all platforms.

New Project.../New Item... -invokes the DevExpress template library, which allows you to add a single project or create a new project using the DevExpress template.

Run XPO Profiler... -launch of XPO Profiler, a performance analysis tool designer specifically for XPO-based business applications.

Assembly Deployment Tool-launches the assembly deployment tool, which allows you to include the required DevExpress and / or custom libraries in your solution.

WinForms Controls group-contains platform-specific menu items.

Using Visual Studio themes / default skins in the control designer

Use Office-style navigation panes / browser-style navigation panels in the control designer

Run Skin Editor... -launch the WinForms skin Editor to modify DevExpress skins or create custom skins.

Disable/Enable Layout Assistant-turns the layout Assistant extension on or off.

Change design-time settings

Run demo center-start DevExpress demo center.

Go to online document-Open the online document page in the default browser.

Project Converter-starts the project converter to update the DevExpress libraries referenced in the project to the latest version.

Design-Time Settin

Using Visual Studio themes / default skins in the control designer

Use this menu item to apply the current Visual Studio skin (or the default DevExpress skin) to all Designer dialogs provided by DevExpress controls and components. The following figure illustrates the Bar Manager designer that uses the default color scheme and Visual Studio "dark" skin painting.

Use Office-style navigation panes / explorer-style navigation panels in the control designer

This option changes the side menu appearance of the DevExpress control designer, and the following illustration illustrates the difference.

Change design-time settings

The menu item invokes the dialog box with two settings. "Enable Design-time form skinning" >

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