>In a "validating" method that has been fired for a control, is there a way to detect that the user has clicked on the form's close button (the 'X'), so that validation can be bypassed?

Steve,

I looked through the various Form properties and couldn't find anything obvious.

But, I wonder if that's what you really want to do? Typically, when a user clicks on the 'X', they should be asked if they want to save their changes (if there are any, that is) and so I think your validations should still execute. A lot of users click on the 'X' not necessarily as a means of "escaping" the process, but just because it's an easy way to close a form and a lot do it out of habit. I'd hate for them to lose all changes to data on the form without informing them of such.

~~Bonnie