03 March 2009 Git4You:

After the vietnamese edition of this tutorial has been released at Git4You Vietnamese Fourm, some foreign visitors ask me for the english. And this is the english one, will go through a tutorial for adding custom menu to ArcMap main menu with VB.NET 2008

Pre-requirements:

- Visual Basic .NET SDK 2008
- ArcGIS Desktop 9.3
- ArcGIS Desktop SDK 9.3 for .NET

You may follow these steps:

1. Create new VB.NET project and select Class Library (ArcMap) template as image below:

4. The wizard will ask you about the type of Base Menu. In this case, we create for ArcMap.

5. Locate to the ArcGISClass1.vb and double click on this to open code window

6. Find:

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Public Sub New()
'
'TODO: Define your menu here by adding items
'
//AddItem("esriArcMapUI.ZoomInFixedCommand")
//BeginGroup() 'Separator
//AddItem("{FBF8C3FB-0480-11D2-8D21-080009EE4E51}", 1) 'undo command
//AddItem(New Guid("FBF8C3FB-0480-11D2-8D21-080009EE4E51"), 2) 'redo command

End Sub
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Replace with:

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Public Sub New()
'
'TODO: Define your menu here by adding items
'
AddItem("esriArcMapUI.ZoomInFixedCommand")
BeginGroup() 'Separator
AddItem("{FBF8C3FB-0480-11D2-8D21-080009EE4E51}", 1) 'undo command
AddItem(New Guid("FBF8C3FB-0480-11D2-8D21-080009EE4E51"), 2) 'redo command
End Sub
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7. Find:

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Public NotInheritable Class ArcGISMenu1
Inherits BaseMenu
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Then replace with:
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Public NotInheritable Class ArcGISMenu1
Inherits BaseMenu
Implements ESRI.ArcGIS.Framework.IRootLevelMenu
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8. Then find:
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Public Overrides ReadOnly Property Caption() As String
Get
'TODO: Replace bar caption
Return "My VB.Net Menu"
End Get
End Property
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Replace with

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Public Overrides ReadOnly Property Caption() As String
Get
'TODO: Replace bar caption
Return "Git4You BaseMenuDemo" //or what you want to name the caption
End Get
End Property
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9. Build and start debugging. This will run ArcMap

10. Access Tools menu from ArcMap, navigate to Customize to open Customize dialog. Then click Commands Tab

11. Locate [Menu] item on the left, find Git4You BaseMenuDemo on the right, as image below:

12. Drag "Git4You BaseMenuDemo" to ArcMap main menu:

Now review your code to understand program behavior. You may post your question into Git4You English Forum if you want. A demo project is avalable in Download Center. Good luck !

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Written by Mr. Bic Phuong