>What about the reverse? How do you access a textbox within a panel within a tabpage from a method in the form if the form doesn't "SEE" the textbox.
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>Or maybe this should be another topic entirely.

Windows forms controls are always defined at the form level not at the control level. Unless you've created a custom class you have access to the control through that. If you've created a custom class you shouldn't be exposing thecontrols anyway, but there should be methods that handle assigning the values. You can always implement a generic routine like FindControl() that returns a reference to a control by using Reflection (kind of like ASP.NET's FindControl() method).

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