Thanks for the suggestion. I'm new to VB and OOP so I'm going to have to look up user controls. Thanks again for leading me in the right direction.

MSH

Thanks for the ListView suggestion. I'm new to Visual Studio and OOP, and I have never heard of this option. I will give it a try. Thanks again.

MSH

Up until now, I've always used a single form along with it's vb code(Form1.vb & Design). I now have a project where two forms are needed. I added a second form so now I also have (Form2.vb & Design). I want to access the 2nd form from a button on the 1st form and visa versa like a hierarchical menu system. Is it necessary to have a parent and child form relationship if I only want one of the forms accessed at any given time? Both forms will have independent vb code, but I will need to use a value created on form one in form two's vb code. I was going to hide each form that is not in focus at the time. What is the best approach for something like this?

MSH

I'm trying to pull data into a listbox with more than one column. I have successfully connected to the database from vb.net, and I have pulled data (one column) from using an odbc select command into a list box. The problem I'm having now is that I have more than one column of data that I want to display in the list box. I'm using the following command ListBoxName.Items.Add(myReader.GetString(0)) to get the data into my list box. The "0" indicates the column number that gets inserted into the list box. If I change the number to "1", I can get the second column from my select command to appear in the list box, but I want a multiple column list box with both columns to appear in the list box.

MSH