The slight saving in effort was explained to me by Tamar, and it wasn't this. My q was what's the big difference between changing the .BorderStyle prop, via combo if wished) and setting a numeroic prop.

Sorry - i misunderstood the question. I thought you were asking what the difference was between explicitly setting the BorderStyle property in the form's Init() using code and having the form class set it using the custom property.

I thought the fact that both methods allow you to resize the form at design time was fairly obvious < s >.