If you need to loop through all the buttons this code should do just that:

foreach(Control o in this.Controls)
{
	if (o.GetType() == typeof(Button))
	{
		MessageBox.Show("Button with text: " + o.Text);
	}
	else
	{
		MessageBox.Show("Not a button");
	}
}

C# is not more complicated it is just different :)

HTH,
Einar


>what i want to do is to loopo through about 21 buttons on a pocket pc
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>I will then name these buttons to match a field in a table
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>it is actually to build a pocket pc sysyem for ordering drinks etc
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>i will need about 3 or pages of these buttons so that I can place orders for drinks and food. I will call these either by a tab or by another set of buttons
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>Eventually i want to be able to book rooms tec.
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>O know exactaly how to do it in VFP but it appears to be so much more complicated in C#
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>but the isnt anything - i am told i cant visually sub class buttins and forms
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>Knd regards
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>
>Richard