Dave,

>The standard .net way of doing this is to use the CancelEventArgs class instead of the regular EventArgs class.

Yeah, all well and good for a Closing Event on a form, but I don't think that the Button Click event handles either a CancelEventHandler or CancelEventArgs. Unless I missed something when I tried it.

~~Bonnie

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>It adds an additional Cancel property that your base class could process and cancel furthur processing of the event.
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>See http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/cpref/html/frlrfsystemcomponentmodelcanceleventargsclasstopic.asp
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>>This works great, but what I'm trying to achieve is to prevent this default parent code
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>>        '------------------default code goes here---------------------
>>        MsgBox("parent click at class level")
>>        '------------------default code goes here---------------------
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>>from running if necessary, or maybe override it. For example something happens in my preclick method and I then decide to abort the action etc.