Make sure your properties are Public. The default if not defined is protected which means they can't be changed outside of the class hierarchy. Private also could cause the problem even inside of the class hierarchy.

Cathi's comment about Get methods of course is also valid.

+++ Rick ---

>All,
>
>I have a component that I want to subclass via VS.Net. In my project, I do an Add/Component, go to the code and replace the Inherits with my base class.
>This method leaves all the Component Designer generated code intact and I cannot assign any properties defined in the base class in the subclass.
>
>What am I doing wrong?
>
>TIA
>
>Rex