>I have a couple of IDE questions:
>1. How can I always hide the Output window? This window seems to always take more real estate that it needs. Or am I not seeing its potential yet?

All the windows work the same. They can be docked, or hidden, or closed. The 'pin', the icon that looks like a push pin is probably what you want. If the pin is sideways (you hover over it and it says auto-hide) this is what you want. If you click the pin it will change to vertical, this means the window will stay where it is position and size. If you are in auto hide mode, as long as the mouse is hovering over the window, it will stay open. Once you move the mouse off that window it will autohide, provided you have the pin set that way.


>2. How do I open the INIT event of an component? ( remember I am heavily used to VFP ) And for that matter any event that is supported by that component? In vfp i could see all events supported and access the event directly.
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You should take another look at .Net for VFP developers chapter 5 I think it is. It talks about 'constructuors', which is the basic equivelent to the Init() method in VFP. In C# the constructor is the method with the same name as the clas. In VB, I can't remember, cause I have been working with moslty C#, but the book tells you.

BOb