Menu
A menu in an application of mine is going to contain too many items to be displayed in a single vertical row. Splitting it into 2 menus does not look a good solution as it would break UI semantics. Can I just set up one menu to be displayed with multiple columns (like Windows XP classic Start menu in case of vertical overflow)?
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You can add menus to Windows Forms at design time by adding the MainMenu control and then adding menu items to it using the Menu Designer. Menus can also be added programmatically by adding one or more MainMenu controls to a form and adding MenuItem objects to the collection.
Use the StatusStrip control to display status for your Windows Forms applications. In the current example, menu items selected by the user are displayed in a StatusStrip control. From the Toolbox, drag a StatusStrip control onto your form. The StatusStrip control automatically docks to the bottom of the form.
MenuStrip is the top-level container that supersedes MainMenu. It also provides key handling and multiple document interface (MDI) features.
Resize with the designerBy dragging either the right edge, bottom edge, or the corner, you can resize the form. The second way you can resize the form while the designer is open, is through the properties pane. Select the form, then find the Properties pane in Visual Studio. Scroll down to size and expand it.
How about creating some levels for the menu instead of splitting the menu vertically? Can't your options be grouped?
EDIT:
Don't know why I've been downvoted, but if you don't want to break the semantics of the menu and:
then you have to do something else, and grouping and levels are here to the rescue.
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