>I'm sorry to be so persisent about this, but I want to tell you that I made the class without the Get, Set and DefaultValue stuff, and it works just fine... When I change the font color or size in the class, and then re-build project and run the form, it comes out just like the class changes. No Get. No Set. No DefaultValue. It just works.
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>Now, to see the changes in the form while in the IDE, you will have to close and re-open the form. But at any time, if I change the font in the class, the textbox on the form automatically updated to match the form, when you run it, or re-open it. Again, No Get. No Set. No DefaultValue.

No problem, Matt. Persistence is a good thing. =0)

OK, so now ... drag another TextBox to your Form in the IDE. Then go look at the designer-generated code and tell me what you see. All of a sudden, all those properties will now be showing up there. OK, well, that still looks ok ... until you go and change a property in your TextBox base class and now it will *not* be propagated into that Form. Try it, you'll see immediately what I mean. Sorry to be such a spoil-sport. <g>

~~Bonnie