Alan,

Do the same thing as you did for Font in your base class, override the Text property.

	public override string Text
	{
		get { return base.Text; }
		set { base.Text = "Edit"; }
	}

~~Bonnie


>>I dragged the above class from the toolbox onto a form and ran the form in debug mode. No errors occurred, but the button shows "cEditButton1" as the Text, not "Edit". Any ideas what might be going wrong?
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>Ok, I've found what is causing the above error. When I drag the button class onto a form, VS automatically sets the button text to "cEditButton1", the next button as "cEditButton2", etc.. If I blank-out the text (via. the property sheet) and run the form, I get "Edit" as the button text, as set by the constructor method. This is fine at runtime, but I want to see the "Edit" text on the button at design-time (as we used to do in good ol' VFP), not a blank button! How can I get the required text immediately I drop the button on the form (apart from changing each instance manually, which to me defeats the object of having a class in the first place)?
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>Any help would be appreciated.
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>Alan