sonatabar bar wrote: > Can anyone please elaborate on this. Also to note is > that if I used the 'this' to dereference it, I can > overcome the error. But still want to understand why > it does so in the below setup. http://www.parashift.com/c++-faq-lite/templates.html#faq-35.18 This is just how name lookup works. sTID is a nondependent name and base classes are not considered when looking them up. Brian