Keith,

I'm not sure I understand what you are asking. If you mean adding properties to the frameset ASPX page and referring to them using each frame's ASPX page I haven't tried that but I would be surprised if it worked.

I don't think your other questions would work either. Here's why: the client requests the page that contains the frameset. IIS and ASPX instantiate the class that implements the page, which creates any datasets you have defined, sends the HTML to the client, and then closes the connection to the client which also destroys the server objects including the dataset. The client sees the HTML contains a frameset and requests the individual pages from the server. This is a disconnected model: nothing is persisted between pages unless you take steps to persist it by saving a dataset to a session object, a database table, or a viewstate bag.

I don't claim to be an expert in ASPX programming so if I'm wrong someone else jump in and correct me.

>Roger,
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>I am struggling with a frameset problem and perhaps you can help:
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>I want to reference a some properties of the frameset page from within the frames. I haven't been able to find any examples or instructions in the .NET help files on how to do this.
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>Actually, referencing properties of the frameset is not as efficient as binding the web form components in the frames to a dataset object in the frameset. Is this possible with the data binding builder? If not, is it possible to do it in code?
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>TIA,
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>Keith Payne