Combining dropdown menu to its button in Winforms? - c#

I'm wondering how you can get a dropdown menu to blend in with the button clicked as seen in the above image. I've created a flat button with no border to mimic the look of the Edit, View, Project, etc. buttons, and have added a ContextMenuStrip to act as a dropdown whenever one of the buttons is clicked. The image below is however the best I could make it.
Is it perhaps some tool other than a Button + ContextMenuStrip that needs to be used to achieve a blending look like the first image? Thank you for any help.

You can use a MenuStrip control:

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The following describes what I would like to do:
Touching the Button with the Mouse (I assume, the best event would be MouseMove), should open a new DropDown at the Button. (Something similiar like a Combobox DropDown)
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