How do I create compound keyboard shortcuts in a Windows Forms application?

Question

I want to create a component that allows us to have compound keyboard shortcuts associated with an arbitrary command, like the Visual Studio IDE and Microsoft Office do.

Answer 1

In addition to some of the answers, using an ampersand in the caption of a button, or menu item, will cause it to be underlined, and accessible by using Alt + the letter you preceded by the ampersand &.

In other words, if you have a menu item captioned &File it will display with an underline under the F and the user can trigger the menu by clicking Alt + F.