>Hello Naomi, thanks for the reply.
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>>I'm not sure this is a good implementation to let form proceed to Activate.
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>I agree, but it works for now.
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>>First of all, would no return value will be enough for you to know that form's execution was stopped in the Init?
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>Unfortunately not - I need to know what the return value is (it will be an error message indicating why validation failed).
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>I'll give your parameter-object solution a try.
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>Regards,
>Alan

It's not mine, but it's sort of a general knowledge now, so it's hard to find who "invented" this idea.

Anyway, you may check http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=1289372&SiteID=1 which was referenced by Cetin today.