Have you considered looking into Visual Studio Lightswitch? It sounds like it could be exactly what you want. See here[^]. Forgive your enemies - it messes with their heads "Mind bleach! Send me mind bleach!" - Nagy Vilmos My blog | My articles | MoXAML PowerToys | Mole 2010 - debugging made easier - my favourite utility

http://www.tutorial-web.com/asp.net/index.aspx[^] Security beter on ASP.NET due to its precompiled nature similiar to COM objects. Theres prob tonnes more things but its a case of googling!

What I have heard/read there is no very big differ between vb and c#. However I have not done anything with c#, so I might as well be wrong. But if the team has knowledge of old vb, why should they abandon it? vb.net is quite familiar to one who has programmed with old vb. Maybe familiarity would help to learn new ropes? I would really like to know, if there is something very different between vb.net and c#. best regards Tuukka

Call RedrawWindow with RDW_FRAME.

You can get a start by adding a reference to System.Design.dll and adding the following attribute to your UserControl [Designer(typeof(System.Windows.Forms.Design.ParentControlDesigner))] You may want to put some code into the Paint event so that you draw a border around the control if DesignMode is true; otherwise the control will blend into the form with the default values. James "And we are all men; apart from the females." - Colin Davies

Just set the ClientSize property on the form to the desired size :) Much easier than standard win32 :-D James Simplicity Rules!