In VB6 days, we used to place these controls into a borederless frame and handling the Enabled property of this frame to have these controls locked or not! Maybe this can work in VB.Net too. The best thing would be to create your own user Checkbox control that inherits the existing one in which you would add this property (readonly).


>I ran into the same thing awhile back...unless there's something I'm not aware of, checkboxes, datetime controls, and combo boxes don't have a readonly property. They have enabled, but not readonly.
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>This was a bit irritating to me, because the background color (when disabled) is that yucky gray, and you can't change it.
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>Kevin