[dba-VB] NetGender - The Software Company

I purchased a .Net library that does name splitting.

http://www.softwarecompany.com/dotnet/netgender.htm

It seems to work well just from using the little demo that you can
download.  Now I am starting to actually work with it.  It consists of a
single class, embedded in a dll that you reference, with properties to
set to tell it all of the controlling stuff, then properties to hand it
the name to split and read back the name pieces.

The developer claims that it will handle between 2K and 3K names per
second.  We shall see.

So here I am trying to work with this thing.  The demo form is quite
extensive and the code in the form shows how to read / write all of the 
properties to populate the form.

I have a database with (of course) about 80 million names, in a single
field, in the form LastName FirstName MiddleInitial (no commas etc)
which needs parsing.  What I thought I would do (just for the moment) is
to use the existing form and just feed in the names.  Thus I need to add
a couple of properties to the form such that I can feed in names and get
back the parsed pieces.  I will build a switch to tell the form to
display the pieces or not, thus I could watch the process function if I
wanted, though at the cost of slowing the process down.

Modifications to the demo form to allow me to do all that stuff is just 
about complete.  What I need to know is the syntax to get a pointer to a 
form being opened.  I know that you just do a "Someform.Show" to open 
the form, but a parent form needs to get a pointer to this demo form and 
then use that pointer to set / retrieve properties.  How do I get a 
pointer to it once opened?

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John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com