Mike,

>The tool tip says "The keyword new is required ... because it hides inherited member ...". Is it best to do what the tooltip says, or just comment out the line?

Victor's right--VS .NET automatically added this line of code for you and then subsequently complained about it <g>. It's a compiler warning (vs. an error) that you can ignore. If you want to get rid of the warning, you can add the "new" keyword to the variable declaration.

Regards,