>I'm looking for an easy way for two textboxes to reference each other.
>Because of the nature of the form they are on it is ugly for them to try
>to reference using the common 'this.parent...' or 'this.form..' Instead I've
>been considering having a property on each of the textboxes called oRef. So,
>they could refer to each other by 'this.oRef.Value.' regardless of where in
>the form they appear. The obvious stumbling block to this is, of course, that
>a form that has any object references still intact won't release. I've tried
>to manually release the object reference in the destroy even of the textbox
>class, but the destory even doesn't even fire before the form hangs. Is there
>a better/easier way of doing this?

Michael, I haven't tested this (caveat emptor) but can you make 2 form properties with "thisform.....textbox1" in the first and "thisform....textbox2" in the second. Use these as 'prefixes' when referring to the textboxes.

In your form.QueryUnload method you would need to reset these properties to .Null.

HTH
Barbara