How to open a toolbar menu by Keyboard short-cuts?

Question

I have a blank toolbar button on my form and I am adding all its menus and menu items at run-time. I need to add a keyboard shortcut to the menus of this toolbar. How can I do t

Answer 1

In the place of tbrDropDownButton.Text = UCMDefinitions.GetCaption(textId), use tbrDropDownButton.Text = "&" + UCMDefinitions.GetCaption(textId). This will assign the first letter of the menu item as the shortcut key. If there are multiple items with the same shortcut key, the user will have to press Enter after one or more presses of the shortcut key.