Reference to caller form's public variable/function

[Shaggy Hiker]

CType isn't bad. DirectCast is better where it works, but only because it is faster. You'd have to be performing thousands of them to see the speed difference, though, and even then it would be only a millisecond or two, so you would have a hard time seeing thousands of them. However, DirectCast does have some limitations that CType doesn't have. Therefore, don't worry too much about using CType.