I'm taking my first steps into oop, which entails gutting my application and reworking it all to be 3-tiered and object oriented. *Sigh*. I've got a submission object, which should contain a customer object (as well as a broker and coverage object); I want to store some datareader results from the db in the fields of each of the contained objects, but when I try to call up the Customer object with a new submission object, I get nothing. VS doesn't recognize that Submission contains a Customer object. I'm obviously missing some crucial points, so with that in mind, ideas? Code below. 

```
//This is the Submission class here
public class Submission 
{
    public int SubmissionId {get;set;}
    public int Status { get; set; }
    public string StatusComment { get; set; }

    public class Customer
    {
        //public Customer() { }
        public int CustId { get; set; }
        public string CustName { get; set; }
        public string CustAddress { get; set; }
        public string CustState { get; set; }
        public string CustCity { get; set; }
        public int CustZip { get; set; }
        public int SicNaic { get; set; }

    }

    public object Customer();
}

//These lines throw an error:

```

> 
> Cannot reference a type through an expression. VS doesn't recognize the call to the Customer object inside Submission by TempSubmission.Customer.
> 
> 
> 

```
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web;
using System.Data;
using System.Data.SqlClient;

/// This query should selects the relevant data for a gridview on the presentation layer and stores in a list. 
/// Don't quite know how to bind it to the gridview yet, but that's a different question. 

public class SubmissionDatabaseService
{
    public List<Submission> GetAllSubmissions()
    {
        string Searchstring = "SELECT Submission.SubmissionId, Customer.CustName, Customer.CustCity, Customer.CustState, Broker.BroName, Broker.BroState, Broker.EntityType, Submission.Coverage, Status.Status FROM Submission INNER JOIN Broker ON Broker.BroId = Submission.BroId INNER JOIN Customer ON Customer.CustId = Submission.CustId INNER JOIN Status ON Status.StatusId = Submission.StatusId";
        string connectionString = System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings["MyConnectionString"].ConnectionString;        
        SqlConnection conn = new SqlConnection(connectionString);

        SqlDataReader dr = null;

        try
        {
            conn.Open();

            SqlCommand Searchcmd = new SqlCommand(Searchstring, conn);

            dr = Searchcmd.ExecuteReader();
            List <Submission> lstSubmission;
            Submission tempSubmission;
            while (dr.Read())
            {
                tempSubmission = new Submission();
                tempSubmission.SubmissionId = dr.GetInt32(0);
                tempSubmission.Customer.CustName = dr.GetString(1);
                tempSubmission.Customer.CustCity = dr.GetString(2);
                tempSubmission.Customer.CustState = dr.GetString(3);
                tempSubmission.Broker.BroName = dr.GetString(4);
                tempSubmission.Broker.BroState = dr.GetString(5);
                tempSubmission.Broker.EntityType = dr.GetString(6);
                tempSubmission.SubmissionCoverage.Coverage = dr.GetInt32(7);
                tempSubmission.Status = dr.GetInt32(8);

                //Add rest of the fields
                lstSubmission.Add(tempSubmission);
            }
        }

        return lstSubmission;
    }
}

```