Associating Menu Commands with Status Bar Text in MFC Applications
Your application can display descriptive text for each of the menu commands a user may select. You do this by assigning a text string to each menu command using the Prompt property in the Properties window. If you have a string in the string table whose ID is the same as the command, an MFC application will automatically display this string resource in the status bar of the running application when a user hovers over a menu item.
To associate a menu command with a status bar text string
In the Menu editor, select the menu command.
In the Properties Window, type the associated status bar text in the Prompt box.
For information on adding resources to managed projects, please see Resources in Applications in the .NET Framework Developer's Guide. For information on manually adding resource files to managed projects, accessing resources, displaying static resources, and assigning resources strings to properties, see Walkthrough: Localizing Windows Forms and Walkthrough: Using Resources for Localization with ASP.NET.
Requirements
MFC