>Thank you!
>
>I will subclass my forms:
>
>public class myformclass : Form
> public myformclass(object pointer)
> ...
>
>Where the pointer points to some elements of data the form will need to access--this is my hook into other objects in my application.
>
>Question: Is there an easy way of having VS set up this code when creating a new form or does this have to be manually changed by hand for each?

You can set up a forms template for yourself to use instead of the windows form template. You'll have to research how to create them, but its fairly easy.