Hi,

I'm new to VB programming but used to program in Basic many years ago. My first attempt in VB 2005 is to create a form with Radio buttons on it which change the color of the Form when pressed. One of the Buttons is supposed to respond with a random color (well, one of 21 predefined ones!). I can't work out how to change the BackColor property with a single statement. All I can manage to do is have a Select Case structure with the 21 options predefined and choose which one to execute based on a random number like this --

 Select Case objRandom.Next(0, 20)
            Case 0
                frmMainForm.BackColor = Color.Aquamarine
                strColourName = " Aquamarine"
            Case 1
                frmMainForm.BackColor = Color.Beige
                strColourName = " Beige"

     and so on down to .............

            Case 20
                frmMainForm.BackColor = Color.Transparent
                strColourName = " Transparent"
        End Select

Is there a way of replacing the "Color.whatever" with a strVariable? Then I could replace the whole thing with one or two statements.

Thanks for any help.