"rnettle" <robert_n@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message
news:1154246390.254276.210190@s13g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
>I have a datagridview on a form and what I want to do is add a context
> menu to the datagridview row headers. So that when a user left clicks a
> row header to highlight a grid row and then right clicks the row header
> a context menu appears on that row header, your help would be much
> appreciated.
>

Ken Tucker [MVP] wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would show the menu by using the contextmenustrip's show
> method if the user clicked the right button on the datagridviews mousedown
> event
>
> Private Sub DataGridView1_MouseDown(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As
> System.Windows.Forms.MouseEventArgs) Handles DataGridView1.MouseDown
> Dim hti As DataGridView.HitTestInfo
> hti = DataGridView1.HitTest(e.Location.X, e.Location.Y)
> If hti.Type = DataGridViewHitTestType.ColumnHeader And e.Button =
> Windows.Forms.MouseButtons.Right Then
> ContextMenuStrip1.Show(DataGridView1, e.Location)
> End If
> End Sub
>
> Ken
> --------------------------
> "rnettle" <robert_n@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:1154246390.254276.210190@s13g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> >I have a datagridview on a form and what I want to do is add a context
> > menu to the datagridview row headers. So that when a user left clicks a
> > row header to highlight a grid row and then right clicks the row header
> > a context menu appears on that row header, your help would be much
> > appreciated.
> >