VB.NET 2005 Tutorials: Creating Menu and Menu Items - In this tutorial we will learn about Creating Menu and Menu Items - Main Menu, Context Menu, StatusBar and ToolBar. Windows users are familiar with Menu objects. The MainMenu control represents the container for the menu structure of the form. Menus are made up of MenuItem objects that represent the individual parts of a menu. You can add submenus to menus that will pop up when the user clicks an arrow in the menu item, display check marks, create menu separators, assign shortcut keys to menu items , even draw the appearance of menu items yourself.