Hilmar,
Make sure you put the code after InitializeComponent()

public Form1(string paraCaption)
{
	InitializeComponent();
	this.Text = paraCaption;
}

Einar

>I tried to assign a form caption, depending on a parameter passed to the constructor.
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>I tried both of the following alternatives:
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>

>Text = "Some caption";
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>// or:
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>this.Text = "Some caption";
>

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>According to the debugger (and also, if I change the commands to a MessageBox()) the commands get executed, but the title doesn't change.
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>By the way, I have the commands in a form constructor, which accepts a string parameter; the caption is supposed to change depending on the caption.
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>TIA,
>
>Hilmar.