How to add custom winforms MenuItem to MainMenu

Hi all, I'm working with VB 2003 .NET 1.1

I would like to create a custom MainMenu control that use custom MenuItem.
My problem is when I'm editing the custom MainMenu control in design-time, it creates System.Windows.Forms.MenuItem instead of my custom MenuItem.

How can I tell the designer to use my custom MenuItem?

Thank you for your help.

In Code view, go into the region labeled "Windows Forms Designer Generated Code" and change the control class from System.Windows.Forms.MenuItem to the name of your custom class.

Thank you for your answer but I don't want to do this manually in code view. I would like the designer to automatically generate my custom class each time I add a MenuItem into the MainMenu in design-time.

I don't think that's possible. The designer doesn't know about your custom class.