Does anyone know if you can create a control, say an textbox, on a form without it being in design view. i.e if i click a button on a form the textbox is created.
You can do this, but you would need to have code to close the form, reopen in design mode, and then create the control, save, and then reopen the form. At least with Access. It's true that in VB6 you can create controls on the fly on an open form.