I am trying to learn how to make a VB control and  come upon a major
stumbling block.

During initialization(or for that matter any other part of the execution of
the control) how can the program detect that the control is being used in
VB design mode or VB run mode.

As an example you may have a initialize event that behaves differently at
design mode than it does at run mode. How would one writes this code. I
appriciate if you can send me you words of wisdom. Thanks again for any
help.

i dont think initialize is used untill runtime