Hello Einar,

I gotta agree with you. I'm now dabbling with Dot Net and I must say that its the little things like this that I miss about VFP.

Have you tried to make truly flat UI controls? Textboxes? Sure. But try as I may, I simply cannot get Winform's "spinners" and comboboxes to appear flat like VFPs. Arggggh! I've found other controls that I've downloaded that can be substituted but why couldn't MS make them that way out of the box. It seems so half baked to me. That and the fact that I cannot build my application to mimic the look and feel of the Dot Net IDE (which I like a lot) really bugs me.

It bugs me so much that I've convinced my supervisor to buy a third party suite of tools that can make a modern looking GUI (read Office 2003/XP style) for our app.

Just my 2 cents...

Mike

PS It includes a maskedit text control too :P



>I must say that I really enjoy working with C# but there is one property I really miss for the textbox control: the inputmask.
>Has anyone attempted (and succeeded) in creating a custom textbox control with a property similar to VFP's inputmask?
>If not I just might have create something like it <s>