Hi I have one that has been keeping me up all night. I have a form with a user control in it. This user control has various text boxes two of which are first name and last name. This form that has the user control on it is a mdi child. When the user enters the text box for first name. A form is loaded asking the user if they want to use the name the enterd when the program started. I have some public varibles. When I go to pass the public varibales I get the following error. "Object reference not set to an instance of an object." ???