>Hi George --
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>>>And I also use "The Hacker's Guide" convention of putting parenthesis at the end of event calls, i.e. THISFORM.LostFocus() but not method calls.
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>>Whoops, yeah, defined constants all upper. Don't add the parenthesis, however. Holdover, from Pascal and QB. Objects and events in mixed case, too.
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>I don't know if the reason for the parentheses have anything to do with being a holdover, it's just a convenient trick to visually distinguish between a method and event.

If the method returns a value, don't you have to use parenthesis?