Stephane,

AFAIK, there's no way. If you want it to show in the TextBox at design time I guess you're going to have to put it back in the Text property.

~~Bonnie

>When i remove the Text of a control at design time, the textbox becomes empty. Is there a way in VS2003 to show the name of the textbox in the textbox at design time while text Text property is empty?