Bonnie,
I checked and they are declared as public.

What I am doing is building a basic user control that contains several small user controls.

i.e.

I have a created the following user controls :
a year user control that has a label for the user to enter the year and I have a textbox for the input
I have the same for month and day.
I also created a user control with two radio buttons on it.


I created another user new user control and dropped the four previous controls on it.
I want to edit the radio buttons control and change the labels to Click 1 or Click 2 as an example.

When I drop those controls on the user control form I can not edit them.
I tried just dropping the individual controls on a form and I can not edit the labels on them.

Any ideas???