It's not the same. The later adds an object to a form and makes it a part of the form. The former only stores a reference to an object in the forms property.

>>>You mean by instantiating the object as the following?
>>>

>>>thisform.MyObject = newobj("MyObjectClass","ClassLib")
>>>

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>>yes - or -
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>>this.NewObject('MyObject', "MyObjectClass", "ClassLib")
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>Thank you, Gregory. This is what I will have to do. The only downside of this method (not a big deal though) is that I have to set all properties in code, instead of visually. Also, I have to set the object to NULL in the UNLOAD whereas if you drop the object it is destroyed automatically.