Indeed. I agree with you on the overall. :) If the Lord God Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon the Creation, I would have recommended something simpler. -- Alfonso the Wise, 13th Century King of Castile. [my articles]

CKnig wrote: FrameworkPropertyMetadata metaBrush= new FrameworkPropertyMetadata( Brushes.Blue, FrameworkPropertyMetadataOptions.None); SolidBrushProperty = DependencyProperty.Register("SolidBrush", typeof(SolidColorBrush), typeof(UserControl1), metaBrush); (I normaly define this in the static constructor of the class) As you can see the only difference is the use of the initialised (Blue brush) FrameworkPropertyMetadata instead of a empty UIPropertyMetadata. The rest looks fine to me. I did that last night, the control works great. Thanks for the help. Shawn

Shawn Horton wrote: I hate when compilers do what you tell them to do instead of doing what you want them to do. Yeah... After 40 years of science, computers are still stupid at all. Tons of work remaining for us developer folks ;P ;) -- Daniel Lohmann http://www.losoft.de (Hey, this page is worth looking! You can find some free and handy NT tools there :-D )