Ditto to what Charles suggested.

~~Bonnie

>Hi,
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>I have the following scenario of using a lookup on a form:
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>I have a user control that has a text box and a button. The user control resides on the form (call it parent form). When user clicks on the button a modal form (call them Lookup form) is opened with a grid showing data from a database table. This data is in a dataset that is retrieved from the database via call to a stored procedure. The dataset can be retrieved when the Lookup form is instantiated. The problem is that user clicks on a lookup button and selects an item from a lookup form, then closes it (moving to another control on the Parent form). So every time user clicks on a lookup button the program has to make a trip to the database to get the data.
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>Is there a way to make the retrieved data set remain in the memory in order to minimize trips to the database?
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>One scenario I am thinking is that the data set can be retrieved in the parent form. Then I would assign the data set to a field of the parent form. But how would the lookup form (the one called from click on the lookup button) would have this dataset "visible"?
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>Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.