To create a menu at design time

Open a new Visual Basic Standard EXE project and add the Data Dynamics ActiveBar 3.0 controls to the project toolbox.
Select the ActiveBar3 control in the toolbox and draw it onto the form.
Open the ActiveBar Designer by right-clicking the ActiveBar control in the form and selecting Properties from the context menu or by double-clicking the ellipsis button to the right of the Custom property in the properties list for the ActiveBar control.
Right-click the Categories node in the ActiveBar Designer tree view and select Insert from the context menu.
Select the new category node and press F2 to rename it File.
Right-click the File category and select tools from the context menu to add tools to your new menu. The tools you select appear in the File category.
Right-click the Bands node and select Menu Bar to add a new menu bar band. Name the new band menuBand.
Right-click menuBand and select Button. Name the new tool fileButton.
Right-click the Bands node in the Designer and select Popup Menu from the context menu. A Popup menu icon appears in the Bands node. Name the new band fileMenu.
Under the File category, change the Name and Caption properties for each of the new tools to match those in the image below.
To add an icon to a tool, double-click the tool in the category node to open the Icon Editor. Click the Open icon on the Designer toolbar to choose a bitmap file, create a new icon using the Icon Editor tools, or capture an icon using the Icon Capture tool.
Using your mouse and the SHIFT or CTRL key, select all of the tools in your category. Drag the tools onto fileMenu in the Bands node.

To link a menu to a tool in a band

Expand the tools collection of menuBand and fileMenu in the Band node and select the tool you want to link to the menu.
In the Properties window of the ActiveBar Designer, choose the SubBand property and select fileMenu. Set the SubBand property for each menu button you add to menuBand.
Right-click fileMenu, choose Separator, and drag it onto a tool to place a line above that tool.
Click OK and run the project to see your form with a File menu containing each of the tools you added above.

Creating a Menu

To create a menu at design time

To link a menu to a tool in a band