Hello World!
I'm going to demonstrate creating a standard menu in C#.
My project is going to have a menu,  and a toolbar,
a status bar, and a rich text box.
This is actually fairly easy to build.
I've started a new project and from my toolbox,
I'm going to first add a menu strip,
and that's docked automatically.
and I click this little arrow and say insert standard items.
Next, I'm going to add a tool strip,
and I'm going to click that arrow  and say insert standard items.
And it will dock right under the menu strip.
And then I'm going to add a status strip,
And that's going to dock at the bottom.
And I'm going to add a rich text box,
And not bother to do anything with that.
And then with this, I'm going to click edit items
and add two labels to that and then click OK.
And then,  I'm going to use this one
and go to my properties window
and name it tools strip status filename.
and then for this one I'm going to go
and name it tool strip status date time.
And then, I'm going to go and add a few dialogs
and I need a timer.... I'm in the properties window! OK.
So I need a timer,  I drag that to the form but it appears underneath.
And then I need a bunch of
Let's drag that back... it docked on me! And that's my design.
And I need a whole bunch of  dialogs.
I need the color dialog, the font dialog, open file dialog, save dialog.
And that's it, I built my old form that I'm going to need in just a couple of minutes.
Let's just run that to see what we have here.
And here's my running program.
I can type in this box.
I can make a selection in the box, but none of these buttons
are going to do anything right now.
and so that's it for right now.
it's a good idea to save all as we go along.