>Ok here is what I see when I run my code.
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>During the first run, my messagebox displays an empty string regardless of what I select in the contextmenu.
>And if I select another student name from the contextmenu, the messagebox displays the studid of the previously selected student.
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>I just can't understand why this behavior isn't manifested in your system. I have VS.net 2003 on my system.
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>What I'm suspecting here is that somehow, for reasons I don't understand, is that my event handler executed after the [MsgBox(mystud.studid)] line in my main form. If this is the case, is there any solution?
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>Thanks...

To pose a solution I need the problem first. What I see is context menu is shown and correct id (at first and subsequent selections) is shown after "delay" message.
You could put a MessageBox in handler to see order of execution. Have you tried to replace MsgBox() with MessageBox.Show()? I don't know if that would make a difference.
Cetin