>>{Updated} - Solved it
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>Do you really need to be adding these things at runtime?
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>I find it *MUCH* easier (as someone else suggested) to add as much as possible at design time and then just control visibility or change attributes at runtime.
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>This was cake in VFP. ASP.NET is a giant leap backward from VFP.

IIRC the Visible property in ASP.NET doesn't really have anything in common with same VFP property. In ASP.NET with Visible=false the object in question simply won't exist.....