Tony,

>components is underlined and gives the following error message:
>
>variable 'components' conflicts with variable 'components' in the base class
>'mmMaintenanceForm' and so should be declared 'Shadows'
>
>Is this a problem? The application seems to work all right, though.

It's not...it's a case of VS .NET inserting code into the form that it doesn't like <g>. You can add the "new" keyword to this member as suggested by the compiler and the warning will go away.

Regards,