I think the point is to dynamically access the label at runtime not the string "label1" etc. In addition to using Reflection you can also use the Control collections to find controls by name...

+++ Rick ---

>>I want to cast
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>>"label" + Convert.ToString(i)
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>>into a System.Windows.Forms.Label so that I can use
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>>MessageBox.Show(x.Text);
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>>How can I do that?
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>Why do you want to cast it into a label for the message box?
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>Can't you just use:
>MessageBox.Show(new String("label" + Convert.ToString(i)));
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>Or do you have other reasons.
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>Either way, if you want it to be a label, just create a Label object and set the text property to the string value.