Jose

It worked! Thanks for all the help!!

Jim

>Did you remember to assign a value to the custom control properties? (on the form containing the control) This is required so that EnsureChildControls is called.
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>This is what I did with your control, and it worked fine:
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paste the code into a Web Control Library new project (changed the namespace to the default of the project)

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build that project

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add the control to the toolbox (right-click on toolbox, Customize Toolbox, .Net Framework Components, Browse)

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drag the SearchControl into a Web form of another project

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set a value to the "SearchProcedure" property

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build and run the web project

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>...and on click I was redirected to www.microsoft.com as you intended
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>Regards,
>Jose.