>What would be nice is to create a base container control, then subclass it for other uses. I'm not sure how to go about this.

Isn't that what I just showed you? MyBaseControl is a base container control and MySubControl is a sub-class of it. I don't understand what you don't understand ...

~~Bonnie

>>Well, it depends on what you're sub-classing and what you want to do with it. If you have a UserControl class that you want to sub-class, you can do a lot of it visually if you need to. So, say you have this UserControl:
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>>public class MyBaseControl : System.Windows.Forms.UserControl
>>{
>>   // code in here
>>}
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>>Now, to sub-class it, you start out by doing it in code: Add a new class to your project, make it of type UserControl, then go into the code and change it from this:
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>>public class MySubControl : System.Windows.Forms.UserControl
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>>to this:
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>>public class MySubControl : MyBaseControl
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>>At this point you can open your new sub-class up in the designer.
>>
>>~~Bonnie