Thank you for taking your time to help anyway. Be sure there'll be more questions from me in the future now that I've started with C# :)

Enmanuel

>Darn! Sorry I didn't notice that earlier Enmanuel when you first posted your code. I could have saved you a lot of grief! =( I'm glad that Pete spotted it for you though!
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>>Thanks a lot Pete. That did the trick! :)
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>>>Hi Enmanuel, I played around with your code and got the same results as you did ( controls not appearing in derived classes ) what you need to do is this, after adding some controls using the designer ( I used buttons ) you need to put this code in the constructor and you will find your derived classes have your controls, let me know how you get on
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>>>public WinFormaBase()
>>>{
>>>    this.InitializeComponent();
>>>}
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