Differences between .ContextMenu and .ContextMenuStrip

Question

What are the differences between .ContextMenu and .ContextMenuStrip in Windows Forms?

I already know what a ContextMenu is, but how is ContextMenuStrip different from ContextMenu?

Answer 1

http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=606224&seqNum=2

You might wonder why Microsoft has replaced a valuable and popular control with a newcomer. The ContextMenuStrip control takes a good idea and makes it better. It works just like the ContextMenu control. You still attach a ContextMenuStrip control to another user control by changing that control’s ContextMenuStrip property. However, Microsoft has substantially improved the features you can add to a ContextMenuStrip cont...

Look at the examples at MSDN:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.contextmenustrip.aspx

ContextMenuStrip replaces ContextMenu. You can associate a ContextMenuStrip with any control, and a right mouse click automatically displays the shortcut menu. You can show a ContextMenuStrip programmatically by using the Show method. ContextMenuStrip supports cancelable Opening and Closing events to handle dynamic population and multiple-click scenarios. ContextMenuStrip supports images, menu-item check state, text, access keys, shortcuts, and cascading menus.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.control.contextmenustrip.aspx

If a ContextMenu has also been assigned to the control, the ContextMenu takes precedence over the ContextMenuStrip.

Answer 2

From the doc

ContextMenuStrip replaces ContextMenu.