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I am sure you know how to add the predefined TextBox or ComboBox controls to a Windows Forms context Menu:

Just wanted to quickly show you how you can add your own custom controls to that context menu by using the ToolStripControlHost class, like this (the yellow panel is a user control):

Here is a short video:

And here is the code:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Data;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Windows.Forms;

namespace WindowsFormsApplication1
{
    public partial class Form1 : Form
    {
        public Form1()
        {
            InitializeComponent();

            //instance my control
            UserControl1 c = new UserControl1();

            //pass as parameter to ToolStripControlHost instance
            ToolStripControlHost host = new ToolStripControlHost(c);

            //add ToolStripControlHost object to context menu. simple!
            contextMenuStrip1.Items.Add(host);
        }
    }
}