i've made a program which works fine, but i want to add some information to it like help files and was wondering how to do it, ever it could be html help files (like a mini website within my program) or just plain text document i could call when a button is pressed...or maybe i was thinking of getting the text and other data from a pdf file or a word document or a normal txt document to display in textboxes.

my problem is calling things like webpages and documents, i've tried out code from my textbox but that doesn't work (something to do with io.streamreader?) anyway we didn't learn how to do this at uni and the module finished last semester and so now i'm teaching my self via doing little projects which is why i'm asking here.

to summarise:

1) how do i get a notepad (example) document to open via a button press?
2) how would i display this data inside of a textbox?
3) how would i call a webpage (internal or external) via a button press?

also

4) i've been trying out putting menus on my program which works fine in vs but when i run the application the menus don't appear...what was i doing wrong?

thanks for taking the time to read this, when i learn more stuff i'll be one of the people on here answering all of the questions