Yes I will be creating the container on every hit and your suggestion will work fine in that environment. My framework is designed to work on the desktop or with web-connect. The controls can render themselves in DHTML so they look the same in IE as they do on the desktop. In this way I do not have to spend time duplicating functionality for the web. So I am trying to design a solution that works properly in both scenarios.

Thanks
Simon


>>My main goal is to avoid the performance hit of walking up the containership heirarchy. My main concern is when the application is run in Web-Connect. I want the application to running quickly.
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>If it's Web Connection, I assume you're creating the container on each hit. Correct? If so, you could just make the reference to the top-level container a private variable (say, poTopContainer) when you instantiate it. Just a thought.
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>-- Randy