Kevin,

>>However, this leads to another question. How do I create this class, without it being tied to a specific Project / Solution? In VS2003, File / New / File does not give an option to creaate a standalone class.<

Well, to start, you'd need to have the class library included in your Solution so you can compile it to a .DLL. We have one class library where we keep all our custom base classes (there's other classes in addition to the non-visually sub-classed controls ... such as certain types of forms that we use a lot). Anyway, this class library is always added to the solution of whatever app we're working on. We control the versions by using VSS and sharing those files.

Doest that help any?

~~Bonnie



>>That's it. These controls can't be sub-classed visually, but as you can see, it's easy enough to do it in code. I have all the basic controls sub-classed in one class library file. Once they're added to the ToolBox, then can be dragged onto any design surface in the IDE.
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>TVM.
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>However, this leads to another question. How do I create this class, without it being tied to a specific Project / Solution? In VS2003, File / New / File does not give an option to creaate a standalone class.
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>Kevin