Creating Static Cascading Menus
In Windows 7 and later, cascading menu implementation is supported through registry settings. Prior to Windows 7, the creation of cascading menus was possible only through the implementation of the IContextMenu interface. In Windows 7 and later, you should resort to Component Object Model (COM) code-based solutions only when the static methods are insufficient.
The following screen shot provides an example of a cascading menu.
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In Windows 7 and later, there are three ways to create cascading menus, which are described in the following sections.