How to override textbox context menu with parent control's context menu?

Question

I have a Panel with various child controls on it. I assigned a context menu to the Panel and it comes up whether I right click on the Panel or on the controls... except for the TextBox control because it comes with its own built in context menu.

I would rather not have to set the context menu on controls directly because they are dynamically generated, and they are generated in a dll outside of the GUI that I'm using them on. Is there any way I can force the Panel's context menu to come up instead of the TextBox's context menu without having to set the ContextMenuStrip property directly on the TextBox?

Answer 1

There isn't a work-around for without having to set the ContextMenuStrip property directly on the TextBox :

Simply assign it.

textBox1.ContextMenuStrip = panel1.ContextMenuStrip;

or

textBox1.ContextMenuStrip = textBox1.Parent.ContextMenuStrip;

You can alternatively loop through the child controls of the panel and assign the menu strip to each child control.