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Hi, I am making a determined effort to migrate a particular application of mine over the fence to OO, but I would like to be "herded" towards using the correct or proper design pattern(s). This application of mine is a TCP Client app that allows the user to connect to one (1) test server as to display test data in various forms (i.e. tabular, time-histories, gauges, etc.) using a single tab control. There can be up to ten (10) such Clients logged in at one time to the same Server. I have read recently that several folks on NI & LAVA forums advise to move away from the tab control and to use sub panels instead. Combine that with this web page's neat UI plugin example, I seem to be getting close to finding the proverbial "light switch" in the dark room, but ... it could be something else .... Some notes: I do have LabVIEW 2012 at my disposal. The test server is written in C++. Down the road a bit we may need to encrypt the XML stream so I may need to put a LabVIEW web service in between the Server and each Client using SSL - if that's a future design bit to note here but not as important as the basic environment or use case of a TCP Client that displays data via several types of displays - which the display types will only grow in the near future as we all have experienced. So adding different displays should be as "easy" as possible. Note: My question was originally posted here, but I was advised to post it here on LAVA for a more experienced architect to respond. Thank you very much in advance !!! CS