You responded too quickly! :o) Ok, let's say I have a textbox designed in a separate class. In design mode, it is not sitting on any container or form yet. How, in design mode, do I reference the parent form in code. Nothing in intellisense because there is no container yet. In VFP it would be this.parent or thisform. What is the equivalent of thisform so a form's method can be called from a textbox? Silly basic question I'm sure... :o) It will bomb without a form existing when designing the class. I'm missing something obvious. I'm also trying to figure out how to make a connection handle visible at the form or app level in vb.net...



>In your project, you need to Add a Reference and point it to the .Net Assembly (DLL). You'll probably need the proper Using statements (assuming C#) in your code files.
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>>Please excuse my ignorance. Can anyone point me in the right direction for:
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>>Connection and sqlexec()s handled by a separate dll so it can be used by multiple apps. Need the foundation base form to call and see the results. Don't want a call from every field so how to make the results visible to all of the lower classes when the call is made to a separate dll (which will pass the query to SQL Server and return a result set). I am probably overlooking something very basic and obvious. In VFP, we had a class or a prg (depending on the version) which we called and passed to it the query and the result set was returned. It was duped in another app for its use. This time, we want a separate utility to handle the communication to/from sqlserver which all apps can use.