# Command Smart Designer

Get started with Menus and Toolbars for WinForms. Create versatile menus and docking/floating toolbars. See more in documentation here.

## Content



[C1Command](/componentone/docs/win/online-menus-toolbar/) features a **Smart Designer** for improved design-time interaction for [C1MainMenu](/componentone/docs/win/online-menus-toolbar/), [C1ToolBar](/componentone/docs/win/online-menus-toolbar/), [C1DockingTab](/componentone/docs/win/online-menus-toolbar/), [C1OutBar](/componentone/docs/win/online-menus-toolbar/), [C1NavBar](/componentone/docs/win/online-menus-toolbar/), and [C1TopicBar](/componentone/docs/win/online-menus-toolbar/) controls. An **Open** button appears, ![Button](https://cdn.mescius.io/document-site-files/images/a27cb622-e6d9-4efc-a0b0-0c31245fd632/imagesext/image11_44.png), when you select one of the [C1Command](/componentone/docs/win/online-menus-toolbar/) controls and mouse over it on the form. Clicking on the **Open** button opens the floating toolbar associated with the selected control on the form.

Each toolbar includes ToolTips for its toolbar items to enhance the user interaction. Additionally, each toolbar provides command buttons and dialog boxes with common properties to quickly configure the [C1Command](/componentone/docs/win/online-menus-toolbar/) controls without leaving the design form. This solves the earlier problem of having to drill down through the [C1Command](/componentone/docs/win/online-menus-toolbar/) controls' properties in the Properties window.

In addition to the built-in toolbars, dialog boxes, and command buttons, the Smart Designers include directions for customizing tabs items on the [C1DockingTab](/componentone/docs/win/online-menus-toolbar/) control to make your design-time experience more intuitive. When you mouse over a tab item in the [C1DockingTab](/componentone/docs/win/online-menus-toolbar/) control, a label appears with a simple command statement instructing you what action to perform.

<br />![label](https://cdn.mescius.io/document-site-files/images/a27cb622-e6d9-4efc-a0b0-0c31245fd632/imagesext/image11_45.png)

You can use the **Smart Designer** feature to create a functional menu, toolbar, docking tab, outbar, navbar, or topicbar at design time.

This section describes the functionality of the **Smart Designer**'s toolbars associated with each [C1Command](/componentone/docs/win/online-menus-toolbar/) control and how to expose each floating toolbar.

## See Also

[Smart Designer Floating Toolbars](/componentone/docs/win/online-menus-toolbar/designtimesupport/c1commandsmartdesign/smartdesignerfloatin)