>well, this is realy easy
>just add a proerty to you form class oDE
>and instantiate a DE in you load event, assign it to the oDE property (so it will be in
>scope when the form is in scope)

I already tried this in the Load() event

ThisForm.AddObject('DataEnvironment','DataEnvironment')

but this is something we can't do because the DataEnvironment is not in the form hierarchy.

But maybe this is not what you tried to explain me. :)