Renderer for toolstrip of Tray Context menu

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My program got a tray icon (notifyicon) for which I have added contextmenu which in its order has toolstripmenuitem(s) that expands after right-click on notifyicon.

I want to do the custom-look of toolstripmenuitems through renderer.
I've searched through multiple forum how to do that and to what I came up is that I need to link somehow toolstripmenu renderer to my contextmenu.

Toolstrip renderer (works perfectly for toolstripmenu):

namespace TrayRender
{
    public class TrayMenuRenderer : ToolStripRenderer
    {
        public TrayMenuRenderer()
            : base()
        {
        }

        protected override void OnRenderItemText(ToolStripItemTextRenderEventArgs e)
        {
            e.TextColor = Color.White;
            base.OnRenderItemText(e);
        }

        protected override void OnRenderImageMargin(ToolStripRenderEventArgs e)
        {
            base.OnRenderImageMargin(e);
            Graphics g = e.Graphics;
...
        }


        protected override void OnRenderButtonBackground(ToolStripItemRenderEventArgs e)
        {
            base.OnRenderButtonBackground(e);
            Graphics g = e.Graphics;
...
        }

        protected override void OnRenderToolStripBackground(ToolStripRenderEventArgs e)
        {
            base.OnRenderToolStripBackground(e);
            Graphics g = e.Graphics;
...
        }

    }

    public class TrayMenuClass : MenuStrip
    {
        public TrayMenuClass()
        {
            this.Renderer = new TrayMenuRenderer();
        }
    }
}

Then in the form designer.cs:

private void InitializeComponent()
        {
...
            this.notifyIcon1 = new System.Windows.Forms.NotifyIcon(this.components);
            this.contextMenuStrip1 = new TrayRender.TrayMenuClass();
            this.Close = new System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripMenuItem();
            this.contextMenuStrip1.SuspendLayout();
...
            // 
            // notifyIcon1
            // 
            this.notifyIcon1.ContextMenuStrip = this.contextMenuStrip1;
            resources.ApplyResources(this.notifyIcon1, "notifyIcon1");
            this.notifyIcon1.MouseDoubleClick += new System.Windows.Forms.MouseEventHandler(this.notifyIcon1_MouseDoubleClick);
            // 
            // contextMenuStrip1
            // 
            this.contextMenuStrip1.BackColor = System.Drawing.Color.Black;
            this.contextMenuStrip1.Items.AddRange(new System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripItem[] {
            this.Close});
            this.contextMenuStrip1.Name = "contextMenuStrip1";
            resources.ApplyResources(this.contextMenuStrip1, "contextMenuStrip1");
            // 
            // Close
            // 
            this.Close.Name = "Close";
            resources.ApplyResources(this.Close, "Close");
            this.Close.Click += new System.EventHandler(this.Close_Click);
...
#endregion
...
        private System.Windows.Forms.NotifyIcon notifyIcon1;
        private TrayRender.TrayMenuClass contextMenuStrip1;
        private System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripMenuItem Close;

VS2008 says that:

this.notifyIcon1.ContextMenuStrip = this.contextMenuStrip1;

Cannot implicitly convert type 'TrayRender.TrayMenuClass' to 'System.Windows.Forms.ContextMenuStrip'

I have also tried to do that in this way:

private void InitializeComponent()
        {
...
            this.notifyIcon1 = new System.Windows.Forms.NotifyIcon(this.components);
            this.contextMenuStrip1 = new System.Windows.Forms.ContextMenuStrip();
            this.Close = new TrayRender.TrayMenuClass();
            this.contextMenuStrip1.SuspendLayout();
...
            // 
            // notifyIcon1
            // 
            this.notifyIcon1.ContextMenuStrip = this.contextMenuStrip1;
            resources.ApplyResources(this.notifyIcon1, "notifyIcon1");
            this.notifyIcon1.MouseDoubleClick += new System.Windows.Forms.MouseEventHandler(this.notifyIcon1_MouseDoubleClick);
            // 
            // contextMenuStrip1
            // 
            this.contextMenuStrip1.BackColor = System.Drawing.Color.Black;
            this.contextMenuStrip1.Items.AddRange(new System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripItem[] {
            this.Close});
            this.contextMenuStrip1.Name = "contextMenuStrip1";
            resources.ApplyResources(this.contextMenuStrip1, "contextMenuStrip1");
            // 
            // Close
            // 
            this.Close.Name = "Close";
            resources.ApplyResources(this.Close, "Close");
            this.Close.Click += new System.EventHandler(this.Close_Click);
...
#endregion
...
        private System.Windows.Forms.NotifyIcon notifyIcon1;
        private System.Windows.Forms.ContextMenuStrip contextMenuStrip1;
        private TrayRender.TrayMenuClass Close;

In this case it gives this error:

this.contextMenuStrip1.Items.AddRange(new System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripItem[] {
this.Close});

Cannot implicitly convert type 'TrayRender.TrayMenuClass' to 'System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripItem'

Thx for any thoughts on this one in advance.