Hello All, I have a usercontrol (uc) which consists of a maskedtextbox and a button, the uc has an overridden property called "Text" which has get and set methods, I have several instances of this uc on a form. On exiting the form I retrieve the "Text" values for validation reasons, however, I have noticed , although I only "get" the control's "Text" value once, the method is actually being called twice, I discovered this by placing a MessageBox statement in the "get" method ( for other reasons ), any ideas as to why this is happening ?