combining menustrip opening lines

[Zexor]

can these 2 lines be written in a single line?

cmsPic.Items(0).DropDownItems.Add(New ToolStripMenuItem With {.Text="ABC"})
AddHandler cmsPic.Items(0).DropDownItems(0).Click, AddressOf ABC_Click

 

[jmcilhinney]

First of all, this line:

cmsPic.Items(0).DropDownItems.Add(New ToolStripMenuItem With {.Text="ABC"})

can more succinctly be written like this:

cmsPic.Items(0).DropDownItems.Add("ABC")

As for your question about adding the event handler on the same line, because the Add method that I've suggested returns the new menu item, you could do this:

AddHandler cmsPic.Items(0).DropDownItems.Add("ABC").Click, AddressOf ABC_Click

There's no need to do that in this case though, because there's another overload of Add that makes it easier still:

cmsPic.Items(0).DropDownItems.Add("ABC", Nothing, AddressOf ABC_Click)

Of course, you'd know all this already if you ever read the documentation, which I've recommended several times and you still apparently staunchly refuse to do. It would have taken you less than a minute to find out all that just by reading the documentation for the ToolStripItemCollection.Add method, or even just paying attention to Intellisense as you typed.

 

[Zexor]

I did the New ToolStripMenuItem with {.Text="ABC"} because sometime it would be {.Text="ABC", .Enable=False, .Tag="DEF"} . Yes i could do the "ABC", Nothing, AddressOf ABC_Click if its only "ABC", but i need the situation when there are more arguments.