How to add custom winforms MenuItem to MainMenu

[YellowPanda]

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.

[Phil Weber]

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.

[YellowPanda]

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.

[Phil Weber]

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