>>>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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>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.
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>Doest that help any?

Sort of. What I can't quite get my head around is the creation of my custom base classes (which are supposed to be generic) within a specific solution, and them then being available to other soltions?

Kevin