This is a known bug confirmed by Microsoft. An .rc file with menubar resources cannot be currently loaded as resource file in eVC. This will be fixed in future versions of Smartphone SDK. Meanwhile Microsoft recommends to manually edit rc-file in text editor ( see Readme.htm file for Smartphone SDK). It's not a satisfying approach, however, since editing application resources manually is a much more difficult and time-consuming operation than editing them in eVC resurce editor.
A better approach is to place manubar resource in a separate text file,which will be included in the main rc-file during resource compilation (but not when rc-file is opened in eVC resource editor).