See Bonnie's response. Create a public property on the form and have your textbox set the property (or even bind the textbox to the property). Then access the property from the other form. That way, changes to your dialog form are less likely to break things on the calling form.

>The form is still in scope but the textbox on the form is not listed. The only thing listed are the various properties and methods on the form. None of the controls.
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>Is there a way to make the controls available?
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>thanks again.
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>Alan