>I discovered I needed to make a local copy of a form class if I intend on modifying it while people are using forms that are based on it (duuuuuhh...he said, blondly).


This is usually not an issue because anybody using the progam is running from an exe, and the clas libraries are compiled into it. Only if you exclude the the libraries from the project, or have your program running from the command window will you not be able to edit the library.