David,
So you don't have to dig through all of Rick's white papers, here's a specific link, from his Blog:
http://west-wind.com/weblog/posts/256.aspx~~Bonnie
>In VFP the function Evaluate or macrosubstitution is used to execute a string...
>
>as that in VB.NET can be done??
>
>For example:
>
>Dim oObj as String
>oObj = "Form1.Text4.Text"
>&oObj = "Test"