Are you using VS2003 as I have seen a bug in this version. Try writing to
code to access the variable then compiling forgetting about intellisense for
a minute.

Cheers
Simon.

Hmm - apologies if this is a mistake you'd never make,  but could  you
be trying to access an  instance variable via the type name of your
form class, instead of via an instance of the form?

That is, if your main forms (class) name is MainForm, and you have a

public int testvar;

in there, you cannot access it from within another form or class via

  int v = MainForm.testvar;

For this to work, you'd need to make testvar static, like so:

static public int testvar;

The consequence of this is that this variable is common to all
instances of your form (that is, if you want to open several windows
of this same type) - probably less likely under the CF than under the
full framework.

  Regards,
  Gilles [MVP].

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