This is actually harder to do, than you may immediately think. Check http://doughennig.com/papers/..%5CPub%5CGDIPlusX.pdf, search for "Measuring text".

>Hi All:
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>I have a class to which I pass a string to be a value for a text box in the class. I then want to adjust the width of the text box so that it is the width of the text string. How do I convert text string width to form control width?
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>Thanks,
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>Yossi