>i>>>For some reason, I was associating the "override" kewyord strictly with methods, and hadn't thought of applying it to properties (duh!).<

Well, I never have applied it to properties either, but it dawned on me (as Rick also said) that properties are really just methods, so I figured it'd be no problem to override them.

>>However, the property I was trying to work with is the Visible property, and it appears that it wasn't defined Virtual in the control base class<

And as Dave replied, you can get around that by overriding the OnVisibleChanged(), which I hadn't thought of either. Learn something new everyday. =)

~~Bonnie