Yes, I see what you're saying Michel, about how you need it to work. I'm sorry I can't help. =( Maybe someone else has an idea.

~~Bonnie



>>I wonder if it would work if you made the shadowed field in your sub-class public.
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>>Public Shadows cLogin As String = "Login"
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>>Just a guess ... I really have no clue. Couldn't hurt to try it though. =)
>
>It's the same thing. The value is visible within the derived class only. The problem I am facing is that I am having various members that I need to set up depending on various Web Service to overwrite the default values. So, I cannot afford to trigger a method to initialize those values from every Web Service method. That need to be done in a declaration somewhere.