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c#winformsmenustrip

How to change the design of a menu strip?

When I create a new menu strip in Visual Studio it has an ugly design. Ugly design

I tried to change the backgroundcolor and backgroundimage but it just got uglier than before.

How to change it to the "normal" Design?
"normal" design

Solution

  • Change the Rendermode property of the menuBar object from ManagedRenderMode to System and you will get the old menu bar style.