>>Interestingly, I just ran Windows Forms project in VS 2010 Beta and in all Windows Controls I only see StatusStrip control. I'm guessing it replaced the regular StatusBar control...
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>Yes, that was my point. But, I saw a lot of recent articles on the net and they make reference that this control should exist in the visual designer.

Strange.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/e8042es3.aspx

According to this, it supposed to be present. I'll check in VS 2008.

UPDATE. I don't see it in Windows Forms project all Windows Controls in VS 2008 either. Perhaps it should be manually added to the toolbox, but this is a pain then.