>>Ok, the general rule is to leave the designer.cs file alone. However, the only thing I want to edit is the BoundProperty value on my controls. I am redoing a VFP form of 32 pages and each page has approximately 10-30 controls on it so updating the bound property on every page is very time consuming. Right now, the form has old variables in the boundproperty and I need to update every one with the new dotnet variable name. So, I want to parse the file and find:
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>>this.pgGenProp1.BoundProperty = "glMyVarName";
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>>and take the value glMyVarName, find it in a table, and replace it in the designer.cs file with "MyNewVarName" programmatically.
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>>I have a table with the old vars and the new vars.
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>>Can I do it? Has anyone done that before? As long as I don't touch anything else, is it reasonable for it not to break?
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>Are you sure you posted this question in the right forum (VFP)? It looks like (from the title and the content) that you are doing something in a .NET application. Sorry if I am completely off the mark.

Probably :o) But I used VFP to parse the file and it worked :o)