>>Mark,
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>>Thanks for the quick reply. I will try what you suggested. This is just what I was looking for. Eric and Nadia replied on how to make the array public, but what I wanted is a way to have all the things needed for the control in the control. Then I can put it in my controls library.
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>>Thanks again to all who replied.
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>>Ron
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>Ron,
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>Using Mark's suggestion you will create a public array. I have a rule to avoid public variables if it's possible. If you need your array for this control only, you should create this array as a property of your control and not make it public.
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>First of all, you should decide, what would be the scope of this array, then you will use the suggestion, which is appropriate. I & Eric understood your original post, as you want to make your array accessable everythere in your application.

Thanks Nadya,

Yeah, I stay away from public anything. Use properties when possible. :)