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>This aspect of VB really sucks. I have been useing ME.ActiveControl as a marginal substitute for controls.
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>Just a note -- you will lose some of the speed gains of early binding under this approach (which may be why there is no "THIS" to begin with). In other words, at run-time (and compile time, in fact) VB knows that "Me.ActiveControl" is a control, but it then needs to check what kind of control in order to validate the action you are taking. But, if you reference a control more explicitly ("txtLastName") VB knows it is a control, and also that it is a text box. One less check for it to make.
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>Also, as a result of this, the intellisense will be "smarter." That's quite secondary in my opinion, though.

Thanks for the heads up.