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ALT+ENTER Keyboard Shortcut to open Properties

I am writing a winforms application and one of the functions is to open an item's properties. I'm not able to find out how to handle this. A menu item doesn't allow to define such a keyboard shortcut and implementing the handler manually with the keyup or keypress event handlers doesn't work either. Anyone out there who knows how to do this?

Solution

  • I think Thomas is correct, you must use a ToolStripMenuItem. Adding the following line to my .designer file worked like a champ:

    this.fileProperties.ShortcutKeys = System.Windows.Forms.Keys.Alt | System.Windows.Forms.Keys.Enter;

    The keystroke works and the string Alt + Enter is displayed on the menu item.