>Hello All,
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>I am attempting to develop some standard classes for my programers to use and I was wondering if anyone could tell me how to place some design time validation on some of the properties in the classes?
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>For example: I have a command button class for which I do not want the developers to be able to change the size. How could I prevent them from changing the width and height properties for that class?
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>Thanks for any suggestions.
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>Matt

Mark these properties as protected. Although there is still the matter of distributing the VCX/PRG. I guess if you use some type of version control software or maybe even file system permissions you can prevent changes to certain files.

HTH