Tracy,

Another thing to remember, if you use consistent field naming you can write a builder that will go through and apply a class mapping for these fields in your DBC so that any time you drag the field onto a form it'll use the right class.

>Pardon my Friday ignorance, but I want to create a class and then start creating controls and adding the controls to the class one by one. For instance let's say you have some common values:
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>Name
>Address1
>Address2
>City
>State
>Zip
>Phone
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>I want to create 7 textboxes for these values and store each of them as a class so that I can drop all 7 on a form later. Then I change the attributes of them and have it take effect everywhere those special textboxes are used.
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>I am going to have a vcx of common controls and then have a customer name and address group of textboxes, a company name and address group, etc.
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>Please forgive my Friday forgetfullness and how do I do this? I am drawing a blank on getting the textboxes into the vcx visually....