Thanks for your reply

>>I've created a property for my subclassed label thats called 'boundto'. This property shall reference to a textbox. However I don't know how to insert an object-reference into this property at designtime. Is this possible at all or do I have to continue with using macro-substitution?

>To assign the object reference
>This.BoundTo = Thisform.OtherTextField (or whatever the object name is).

This would mean, the code had to be placed in Form.Init or so, but I tried to keep code in my label-class. At the time, as I still don't want to use a macro-subst., I am using a 'for'-loop and access the control by comparing the 'this.boundto'-property with this.parent.controls(i).name This will offer me full reference-access. But there surely might be some better way.

Tom