Take a look at the access modifier property of your main form. It is probably set to private. In order for those fields to be available in a sub-class, I think you need to set it to protected or public.




>Hi!
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>When I inherit an MDI Parent Form from a DLL (another project of mine like a base class library) all its components (Menu, Toolbar, BindingNavigator etc) become readonly not sure why?
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>What am I doing wrong here.
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>Sarosh