I need to do something very similar to Ryan's screencast Bonus Sample - Embedding a .NET Control in SalesLogix. I have replicated what Ryan did but I also need to return a single string value back to the calling SLX form. How can I accomplish this? Basically I have a text box on a Opp tab with a string value. Next to it a button. When clicked I need to open a SLX form that contains the .Net control passing it the value of the text box. Then when you click save on the just opened SLX form it passes the new value back to the calling Opp tab. The part of passing the new value back to the calling Opp tab is where I need help.

Thanks

Expose a Public Property in the slxwrapper of your .Net extension that you can use to store the value you want.

I don this with 2 properties

CanLoad is a boolean that determines whether or not the .net extension can load and execute properly

ExceptionMessage is a string property that is used to display the exception message if can load is false

Example

Inside the run method ot the ,net extension

try
{
 //Code to Load the extension, controls etc
 CanLoad = true;
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
 CanLoad = false;
 ExceptionMessage = ex.Message
}

Inside of slx form that runs the the .net extension

Assuming DotNetControl is properly instantiated as a .net extension label1 is a label control whose visible property is set to false and Edit1 is a text Edit control whose visible properly is set to false

If DotNetControl.CanLoad = False Then
        Label1.Caption = "The Dashboard could not load. Copy and Paste the error below and send it to IT"
        Label1.Visible = True
        Edit1.Text = DotNetControl.ExceptionMessage
        edit1.Visible = True
    End If