Hi Paul.. thanks for your reply.

Thats exactly what I want.
One more question...
If I wanted to cycle through each of these text boxes and say assign a caption to each of them,is that possible ?

regards

Gerard

>>Hi
>>I have a piece of code which programatically makes a few controls
>>I want to replicate this in C#
>>
>>FOR i= 1 TO 20
>> lcTxt = 'txt' + STRTRAN(STR(i,2),' ','0')
>> WAIT WINDOW lcTxt
>> x= lctxt + " = CREATEOBJECT('textbox')"
>> &x
>>ENDFOR
>>
>>(This just makes 20 texbox controls txt01, txt02,txt03.....txt20
>>
>>Thanks in advance
>>Gerard
>
>

>int x = 20;
>int y = 50;
>
>for (int i = 0; i < 20; i++)
>{
>   TextBox txtbox = new System.Windows.Forms.TextBox();
>   txtbox.Name = "txt" + i.ToString();
>   txtbox.Text = txtbox.Name;
>   txtbox.Location = new Point(x, y);
>
>   this.Controls.Add(txtbox);
>
>   y += txtbox.Height + 2;
>}
>