Hi All,

It took me hours of searching the net not to find the solution but managed to find the solution by experiment!

You have a control within a formview and the Forecolor is bound to it.

Your sql table has a field called "Forecolor" with the value "RED" for type = text.

Bind the control with the following;
ForeColor='<%# system.drawing.color.fromname(Eval("ForeColor")) %>'
This works for anything with color.

FromName takes the "Red" string and converts to proper system.drawing.color!

Something else;

The Borderstyle = int
so for a solid border enter 1
Bind the control with the following;

BorderStyle='<%# Eval("BorderStyle") %>'

If you want to find the other values for borderstyle then -

"Me.Button1.BorderStyle = BorderStyle.Dotted" mouse over BorderStyle.Dotted to get int value of 2. Get my drift!

I hope this is of any help to anyone searching for a quick and easy answer.

Regards
Paul