Window foms resizing, anchor and docking

I am fairly new to winforms, but have done a lot of ASP.NET
I want to design a resizable form, written in C#
The form has
1)a menustrip control, at the very top
2)a panel or group box with filter controls such as list boxes date ranges within the panel. WHich I want it anchored to the top, and the panel should size accordingly as the form is stretched or shrunk, and the controls within it should do the same.
3) Another panel at the bottom which contains a splitcontainer or any other control, that holds a treeview to the left and a tab contrl to the right
4) A status bar at the bottom

I want all these controls re size accordingly with the form. I played with the windows anchor and dock property but was not successful.

Any code samples would be great

Thanks
Cm