>You are right, but I guess I didn't phrase the question properly.
>
>In FoxPro, the INIT event of the form runs after all the controls on the form have been initialized, so you can refer to them in the form's INIT event. But in C# the Controls collection doesn't seem to be available in the constructor. At least in the constructor of a Panel that I have created to hold a bunch of controls.
>
>I need to loop through the controls after they are initialized so that I can set the Bindings on certain objects at runtime. I.e., the TextBoxes, etc.
>
>I used this code to try to accomplish this: (The DataViewPanel is a Panel that contains all of my data controls) I'm using a panel instead of a form so that I can use an expandable splitter. And so I can bring in and out of the main form different panels as they are needed.
>
>public DataViewPanel() //Constructor
>{
> InitializeComponent();
> BindControls();
>}
>
>private void BindControls()
>{
> foreach (Control ctl in this.Controls)
> { //Do something
> }
>}
>
>The BindContols method doesn't see any Controls in the Controls Collection. Can you tell me where I'm going wrong?
>
>Thanks.
>
>bob

The code posted should work. What type of error do you get?
You can also try to use the Load event. Load firest after the constructor