In Code magazine, March/April 2004 p10 "Give Your Forms A Base", D. Kurata describes such a sequence

>>I'm looking for an event that is analogous to the init event with VFP controls. I want to do some enabling, disabling, etc based on the users permissions. For example, i want to test a textbox for the users permission to read, add, edit, delete, view, etc and then have the control displayed or not, enabled or not, etc.
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>Can't you subclass the control and override the constructor?
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>Another option, in your page_load event interate through the controls passing a reference to each control to some decorator class to populate these settings.
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>BOb