one small doubt....please help

Question

Hi Friends,

i am using windows xp (sp2) operating system.

when i used spy++ for notepad and wordpad and when i select menu items it is showing WM_MENUSELECT msg and if i clicked menu item it showing WM_COMMAND.

but when i used spy++ for sql server 2005 and vs2005 and when i select menu items it is not showing any messages( i mean WM_MENUSELECT is not showing) what is the problem...is there any new message generate for these appln when i select menu item?...

i really confused with this...i want to get menu text...i did for notepad and wordpad(using WM_MENUSELECT). then how can i achive the same for these(VS2005,SQL2005).is not possible for this? if possible tell me which msg i have to trap?

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

These applications (VS2005, SQL2005) are built on top of the .Net framework and Windows.Forms. The menu bar and its items are not of the standard window classes used for native windows applications, but rather of some custom type.

.Net applications use the event system provided by the framework to do internal notification. They do not work with windows messages as native windows applications do.

Maybe you can tell more about what you want to achieve, so we might be able to provide other solutions.