VFP has one of the best IDE I have ever worked with. .NET IDE is good but it is in its initial stage and there are lots of way it can be improved.

>Thanks. That worked. The behavior of this seems a bit odd, but obviously it works.
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>Yes, I am using the constructor to set the text property.
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>Coming from VFP-world, I have to admit, for all the great things in C# and ADO.NET...there are two things that I miss from VFP: set-based queries in the middle-tier, and the overall tools and product behavior that VFP had for creating classes.
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>On the latter, I've been through all the major MSDN walkthroughs for sub-classing controls and using them on new forms. Obviously it works well, but my mind and hands are so used to doing things the 'VFP' way!
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>Thanks again,
>Kevin