# Design Time

**RadRibbonBar** has a very well developed Visual Studio designer allowing adding, removing and editing of its tabs, groups and item elements.

> note Detailed examples on how **RadRibbonBar** desing time capabilities can be utilized to their full extent are available in the [Getting Started](https://www.telerik.com/products/winforms/documentation/controls/ribbonbar/getting-started) section.

> important Copying/Cutting and Pasting of [tabs](https://docs.telerik.com/devtools/winforms/ribbonbar/getting-started#adding-tabs), [groups](https://docs.telerik.com/devtools/winforms/ribbonbar/getting-started#adding-groups), and [elements](https://docs.telerik.com/devtools/winforms/ribbonbar/getting-started#adding-elements) are not supported in the Visual Studio designer.

> caption Figure 1: Smart Tag

![WinForms RadRibbonBar Smart Tag](https://www.telerik.com/products/winforms/documentation/assets/0dff70ddefc031e95ce3c71be55451f6/radribbonbar-design-time001.png)

* **Common Tasks**

  * **New Theme Manager**: Adds a new **RadThemeManager** component to the form.

  * **Edit UI elements**: Opens a dialog that displays the *Element Hierarchy Editor*. This editor lets you browse all the elements in the control.

  * **Theme Name**: Select a theme name from the drop down list of themes available for that control. Selecting a theme allows you to change all aspects of the controls visual style at one time.

* **RadRibbonBar Specific Actions**:

  * **Edit Command Tabs**: Opens collection editor responsible for editing the command tabs.
  * **Edit ContextualTabGroups**: Opens collection editor responsible for editing the contextual tabs.
  * **Edit QuickAccessToolBarItems**: Opens collection editor responsible for editing the quick access items.
  * **Edit StartMenuItems**: Opens collection editor responsible for editing items appearing in the start menu.
  * **Edit StartMenuRightColumnItems**: Opens collection editor responsible for editing the start menu items.
  * **Add Tab**: Adds a command tab item.

* **Learning Center**: Navigate to the Telerik help, code library projects or support forum.

* **Search**: Search the Telerik website for a given string.

## See Also

* [Structure](https://www.telerik.com/products/winforms/documentation/controls/ribbonbar/structure)
* [Getting Started](https://www.telerik.com/products/winforms/documentation/controls/ribbonbar/getting-started)
* [Element Hierarchy Editor](https://www.telerik.com/products/winforms/documentation/tools/element-hierarchy-editor)