Bonnie,

I've got it working and everything appears to be correct. I used a combination of your responses. This defaults to DropDownList (not bolded) and changing the property bolds it and allows it to be Reset to DropDownList.

public class caComboBox : ComboBox
{
    // Override inherited settings with new default values.
    [DefaultValue(typeof(System.Windows.Forms.ComboBoxStyle), "DropDownList")]
    new public ComboBoxStyle DropDownStyle
    {
        get
        {
            return base.DropDownStyle;
        }
        set
        {
            base.DropDownStyle = value;
        }
    }

    public caComboBox()
    {
        // Set the starting value to DropDownList.
        this.DropDownStyle = ComboBoxStyle.DropDownList;
    }
}

Thank you so much. It is easy, though not obvious. ;)
Chad

>OK, normally to get that kind of behavior, all you need is to set the DrowDownStyle in the constructor (like I already showed you) and then code like this:
>
>

>[DefaultValue(typeof(System.Windows.Forms.ComboBoxStyle), "DropDownList")]
>public override ComboBoxStyle DropDownStyle
>{
>	get
>	{
>		return base.DropDownStyle;
>	}
>	set
>	{
>		base.DropDownStyle = value;
>	}
>}
>

>
>However, for this particular property, it doesn't work. That's because you'll get an error about DropDownStyle not being a virtual property and so you can't override it.
>
>But, if you change the "override" to a "new", it will work (with the only exception that now the DefaultValue doesn't appear to be available so that you can do a "reset" in the property sheet. I don't know of any way around that.
>
>~~Bonnie