Thank you both for your help...

ATB

Chris

>Viv,
>
>To be honest I guessed :-) however of the top of my head - the TypeConverter has methods to check for the types its supports conversion from and to ie. CanConvertFrom(typeof(string)) or CanConvertTo(typeof(string)).
>
>I suppose you could do something like the following:-
>

>Size test = new Size();
>MessageBox.Show(TypeDescriptor.GetConverter(test).ConvertToString(test));
>

>Which should display the string to use, or you could do something like this:-
>

>foreach(Color c in TypeDescriptor.GetConverter(typeof(Color)).GetStandardValues())
>{
>   MessageBox.Show(TypeDescriptor.GetConverter(c).ConvertToString(c));
>}
>

>Regards
>Neil