Hi Bonnie,

>

>public class MyTextBox : System.Windows.Forms.TextBox
>{
>	public MyTextBox()
>	{
>		this.BackColor = Color.Firebrick; ;
>	}
>	[DefaultValue(typeof(System.Drawing.Color), "Firebrick")]
>	public override System.Drawing.Color BackColor
>	{
>		get { return base.BackColor; }
>		set { base.BackColor= value; }
>	}
>}
>

This gets more complicated by the minute! It's at times like these that I can't help thinking of how simple it was to achieve the same thing in VFP. The thing I find most frustrating is that you have to declare the default color twice, once in the constructor, and once as a default value (to please the designer). Still, that's progress I suppose :-(

Must the DefaultValue directive always occur just before the override method for the corresponding property?

TIA
Alan