>>>Would you guys agree that it generally is a bad programming practice to use this.value within a control because it makes the code considerably harder to maintain. Using the actual variable or field to which the control is bound is much better.
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>>I would not make a generalization like that. In one sense it is *more* generic, since it does not rely on a bound source, which you may not always have.
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>Right... I should have been more specific.
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>How about in code that validates the data entered in the control then.

I still tend to use This.Value, more often than not, I would say. Really, I try to avoid validations if at all possible by restricting entries with tools like Keypress, Format, IAC, InputMask, for example.