Thanks, understood.

Yes, I subclass. Perhaps I will get used to it too.

My next step (in this development) is to get rid of labels and have my textbox class create the labels for me to save time (I have a property in my textbox for human readable title) when we create new windows forms--now not seeing the name of the textbox will just make it a bit harder because there won't be labels on the window too. We did this in VFP and it saved time.

Thanks again.

>>>>>The TextBox class that is shipped with .NET does not have a feature like that. I too missed that feature when I switched, but I soon forgot about it. Until now when you brought it up again :)
>>>>>It should be relatively easy to make a subclass of the TextBox (you do use a subclass don't you) with that feature.