Hi Linda,

>I have a form which has a variety of criteria a user can enter for locating a particular record. If they enter a specific id, I would like to go ahead and fire the click method of the button to locate a record. It seems like it should be obvious to me but I can't figure out what parameters to pass to the click method. I tried passing the arguments that were passed to the Leave method of the text box but that did not work. Can anyone help with this? Thanks.

It would be better to factor the code in the button click out so you can call it from other places.

private void btnGetRecords_Click(sender object, EventArgs e)
{
     // Move all your code here to the GetRecords method
     this.GetRecords()
}

private void GetRecords()
{
     // Put all your code that was in the click event here so you can call it from multiple places
}

Hope that helps and answers your question
Tim