Need help with new class that inherits from a label

[Sorwen]

I've had limited experience with classes and had a lot of help with my last one that inherited from a panel. I didn't have any special properties. Now what I need is a special label class. There a lot of ways I could do this rather than a label (some likely better), but what I want in this instance is a label that has extra properties. Basically it is a special label to hold file information. The .Text property from the basic label will hold the file name (as only the name has to be displayed), but then I need directory info of where the file was found, maybe the size, and then anything else I decide. The final result is multiple of these "flabel" will be in a collection and I will always be dealing with these collections.

Here is the code so far:

Public Class flabel_class
    Private nDirectory As String
    Private nFileSize As Long

    Public Sub New()
        MyBase.New()
        InitializeComponent()
    End Sub

    Private Sub InitializeComponent()

    End Sub

    Protected Overrides Sub Finalize()

    End Sub

    Public Property Directory() As String
        Get
            Return nDirectory
        End Get
        Set(ByVal value As String)
            nDirectory = value
        End Set
    End Property

    Public Property FileSize() As Long
        Get
            Return nFileSize
        End Get
        Set(ByVal value As Long)
            nFileSize = value
        End Set
    End Property

End Class

My problem is I cannot use the Properties it Inherited from the base Label (i.e. .Name, .Text, etc). What am I doing wrong?

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[ThatRickGuy]

Public Class flabel_class

should be

Public Class flabel_class inherits system.windows.forms.label

or something like that, I'm not positive on the namespace.

-Rick

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[Sorwen]

DOH! I forgot to add the line back in when I changed it from a component class to a class. That was really stupid of me. Thanks!

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