I don't know much about builders, having never built one (pun intended! <g>), so this may or may not help. Where does the builder add to the list (IOW, where is the code stored) and how does it do this?

~~Bonnie



>I have a base class that contains a list(of string) .
>I also have a custom builder that adds strings to this list at design time.
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>I can create a new class from the base class and when I use my builder it will add items to the list(of String) but when the new class is closed in the designer the new list items are lost. How can I persist these items after I add them in the builder?
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>Thanks