I'm not sure what your question is. The member variable "socsecnum" is of type Binding and your intellisense should show all the properties and methods of that data type. There is a setting in the IDE that hides uncommon PEMs from showing in intellisense. You might need to change that to show all the PEMs in intellisense.

>Cathi:
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>This is the same code I used to create my code. If you see the message #726104 I have listed the full code for this problem. But my question was if the format & Parse should be listed in the inetelisence list?
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>For example if i declare socsecnum as a binging to my dataset object policeman and to the field in policeman socialnumber then when type
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>addhandle socsecnum. intelisence should display a list of all properties available for socsecnum after I declared and in this case is not available.
>I define the addhandle but I will like to be sure that format & parse are event available for my new declaration.