Thank you very much Bonnie.

>Rene,
>
>Once you create a base class Form, all you need to do to use it is:
>
>1)Right-click on your Project
>2)Choose Add | Add Inherited Form
>3)Name the Form when the Dialog appears & Click the Open button
>4)Another Dialog appears, the Inheritance Picker, for you to choose a Form to inherit from.
>
>That's it ... except for one small detail. What I just outlined above is for VS 1.1. It looks like it's a little different in 2.0. In 2.0, you'd do this:
>
>1)Right-click on your Project
>2)Choose Add | Add Windows Form
>3)Name the Form, and Pick "Inherited Form" from the list of templates
>4)Another Dialog appears, the Inheritance Picker, for you to choose a Form to inherit from.
>
>For sub-classing other controls (like TextBoxes, etc.), you'll want to do something like this.
>Basically, you'll want a class library that contains your sub-classed UI controls, like textbox, button, etc. Something like this:
>

>using System;
>using System.Drawing;
>using System.Collections;
>using System.ComponentModel;
>using System.Windows.Forms;
>using System.Data;
>
>namespace MyCompany.WinUI.MyClasses
>{
>	public class MyComboBox : System.Windows.Forms.ComboBox
>	{
>		// code here
>	}
>
>	public class MyTextBox : System.Windows.Forms.TextBox
>	{
>		// code here
>	}
>
>	public class MyButton : System.Windows.Forms.Button
>	{
>		// code here
>	}
>}
>

>That's it. These controls can't be sub-classed visually, but as you can see, it's easy enough to do it in code. I have all the basic controls sub-classed in one class library file. Once they're added to the ToolBox, then can be dragged onto any design surface in the IDE.
>
>To add to the ToolBox, When you have the IDE open in the designer view (not the code view), go to the ToolBox, right-click anywhere and choose the Add/Remove Items (in 2.0, it's "Choose Items..."), click on Browse and find the .DLL where your sub-classed controls are (you obviously needed to have compiled the class library after you created it). That's it ... they'll then be added to your ToolBox.
>
>~~Bonnie
>
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>>Hi All,
>>
>>Is there a way to create Windows Form as a user template using custom control?
>>What I want to do is similar to Visual FoxPro Visual Class.
>>In Visual FoxPro we can create a VCX using Form class and add some methods and property.
>>All developer that have experience in VFP visual class may understand what I mean.
>>In VFP we can set the form template in the Tools menu -> Options -> Forms Tab -> Template Classes -> Formset or Form.
>>The advantage of this is everytime you create a new form, all define properties and methods are already there.
>>And just in case I want to change the color of my form I will only change the form class and no need to change other forms.
>>
>>Anybody have an idea?
>>
>>
>>TIA,
>>
>>Rene