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Thanks for the reply yes the AceCLient does Implement ICleint. I was hoping that class Class1 : Dictionary where T:IClient would mean the Dictionary Type would be of the Type of the instantiate calls so in my instanace the dictionary would be Dictionary : Dictionary where T:IClient It just means if i wish to access the collection by a class that implements ICLient i have to do the following casting ((AceClient)col[1]).Temp; where col is the collection and Temp is and exdened property of AceCLient Not found in IClient

Thanks been playing about un-installing reinstalling VS2005 for the past day now the tool bar now seems to work but I still get the following in the output window upon loading The ReportDesignerPackage ({11B8C903-8FFD-4DFC-87CE-F6A82D77AF6B}) did not load because of previous errors. For assistance, contact the package vendor. To attempt to load this package again, type 'devenv /resetskippkgs' at the command prompt. The DataWarehouse VSIntegration layer ({4A0C6509-BF90-43DA-ABEE-0ABA3A8527F1}) did not load because of previous errors. For assistance, contact the package vendor. To attempt to load this package again, type 'devenv /resetskippkgs' at the command prompt.