Bonnie and Kevin,

Takes a newbie to screw things up, i removed the InitializeComponent() call in the constructor earlier.....apprently that has an affect on what displays on the screen..LOL.

Thanks Bonnie and Kevin for taking the time to reply.

Newbie Shawn Dorion :-)

>Shawn,
>
>>When I do this and I check the designer, it only show the MM objects not mine.
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>>When I go into the code window, I can type "this.txtCompanyID.text" and intellisense picks it up.
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>>I added a reference to my project.
>>I also added "using Apps4u.WinApp.Forms.Misc;" to the top of the login form in my test app and still nothing.
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>What you're doing should work just fine...It does sound like VS .NET is confused. Usually when this happens I can get out and back into VS .NET and it clears things up.
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>Regards,