I must be missing the forest for the trees here. I've been working with a test project in Visual Studio 2005 for a few hours, and there's something I can't seem to manage. I want to test the creation of an entity through a web test. When I create the entity, it's assigned an issue number. I want to extract the issue number after creation and feed the issue number later on to a search function. I've found plenty of guides on how to create an Extraction Rule, but not so much about how to get at the value from an extraction rule and use it later in my test. Obviously the Extraction Rule is not so handy if it extracts the value and locks it in a safe, so there has to be something I'm missing. Other than inheriting from the extraction rule class, is there any way to get at this value?