ALT+ENTER Keyboard Shortcut to open Properties

Question

I am writing a winforms application and one of the functions is to open an item's properties. I'm not able to find out how to handle this. A menu item doesn't allow to define such a keyboard shortcut and implementing the handler manually with the keyup or keypress event handlers doesn't work either. Anyone out there who knows how to do this?

Answer 1

I think you can define such a shortcut on a ToolStripMenuItem, but not on a MenuItem

implementing the handler manually with the keyup or keypress event handlers doesn't work either.

That's weird... can you show the code ?

Answer 2

I think Thomas is correct, you must use a ToolStripMenuItem. Adding the following line to my .designer file worked like a champ:

this.fileProperties.ShortcutKeys = System.Windows.Forms.Keys.Alt | System.Windows.Forms.Keys.Enter;

The keystroke works and the string "Alt + Enter" is displayed on the menu item.