It's dated 6/19/2002. It is a message from me. I stated thread instead of message. My mistake. You should be able to just click on the Message #670154 and have it appear.

>Cathi,
>
> Do you know the date of that thread?
>
>Thanks
>Jim
>
>>Hi Jim,
>>
>>You need to use the Binding.Format and Binding.Parse methods to do this. See thread #670154 for sample code and a more detailed explanation.
>>
>>>Hello,
>>>
>>> I have a bunch of textboxes for various fields. One is a phone number. I want the format of the data entered to be (###) ###-####. In VFP this would be the input mask. Is there a way to do the same in .Net?