I think that you misunderstood the question. I happen to have the same question. What I'm looking for is a mechanism to create panels with controls at design time and flip through them (ala wizard) at runtime. The pain about using panels by themselves is that it's very difficult to overlay them at design time as the designer wants to keep inserting the topmost panel into the panel in the next layer. It's a mess. The only solution I have found thus far is to create the panels in different locations and then create them at runtime, locating them where needed. It would be very nice to have a TabControl-like container control to assist with this. I myself would use a TabControl, but there's no current mechanism in place that I know of to remove the tabs. (.Net 2.0 - Whidbey Beta 1) If anyone can direct me to a resource for such a control, I'd be much obliged. Thanks, Bob Briggs

You can set the background color, provided you know the values of the different color elements. The following code sets the background to Yellow: textBox25.BackColor = Color.FromArgb( 255,255,0 ); Color.FromArgb() can be used to set a color with different attributes. Check out the different calling options. Bob

Folks, I'm looking for an 'easy' answer here. The .Net 2.0 version of the TabControl doesn't have a 'no tabs' setting for Appearance. (I read elsewhere that it should. That may have been an MFC version of the control.) I'm using the Whidbey C# development environment and I would like to use a control similar to a TabControl, but I don't want to display any tabs. I want to switch the currently displayed 'tab page' from code. I'm trying to avoid having to develop the control from scratch. I could just use panels and flip between them, but many separate panels are difficult to manage in the IDE. It's just easier to use a control that flips them for you. (Anyone who has tried to place a lot of overlapping panels on a form will feel my pain. ;c)) If anyone can provide me with a suggestion, I'd be thankful. Thanks, Bob