Stephen,

The Assembly class is located in the System.Reflection namespace. To find out what namespace to use, you can lookup the class in the online help and scroll to the bottom. There is a "Requirements" listing that shows the name of the namespace to use.

>Thanks. What is the using statement for Assembly? to get a clean compile?
>
>>Hi Stephen,
>>
>>You need to use Reflection to dynamically create instances of a class. You use the Assembly.CreateInstance method to do this.
>>
>>

>>try
>>{
>>   Assembly tempAssembly = Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly();
>>   // if class is located in another DLL or EXE, use something like
>>   // Assembly tempAssembly = Assembly.LoadFrom("myDLL.DLL");
>>   // or
>>   // Assembly tempAssembly = Assembly.LoadFrom("myEXE.exe");
>>
>>   // class to use;
>>   MyObject obj = (MyObject)tempAssembly.CreateInstance(lcO11);
>>}
>>catch(Exception ex)
>>{
>>   MessageBox.Show("Error creating class");
>>}
>>

>>
>>>Meta data is on a MSDE table with Object, Column and Form.
>>>
>>>string lcurl=this.ToString().Trim() ;
>>>int lncurl = lcurl.Length-9;
>>>lcurl =lcurl.Substring(4,lncurl);
>>>string strConnection = "SERVER=(local);Trusted_Connection=Yes ";
>>>string strSQL = "SELECT * from dbo.depmeta where me_form = '"+lcurl+"' "
>>>
>>>I get my FORMS relationships between objects "MmDropDown1" and the column it came from "ap_open".
>>>
>>>I can go against the ds to define what the original data was on the form:
>>>lcC1 = ds.Tables[0].Rows[i].ItemArray[3].ToString();
>>>lcCurr = myDataSet.Tables[0].Rows[0][lcC1.Trim()].ToString();
>>>
>>>To scrape the webforms objects I am starting with :
>>>lcO1 = ds.Tables[0].Rows[i].ItemArray[2].ToString();
>>>lcO11 =lcO1.Substring(0,3);
>>>if (lcO11 == "MmT") { // Textbox
>>>
>>>How do I get the string in lcO1 to act as a reference to the actual object? Like
>>>lcO1.Text
>>>
>>>I have also tried :
>>>if (lcO11 == "MmT")
>>>{
>>> lcS = this.[lcO1].Text ;
>>>}
>>>
>>>Any ideas?
>>>
>>>Sure & would be great here.