I'm not using any of the MS designer objects right now. Last I checked
the model would not for a component design. This is a drop on the form
component, and provides a advanced end-user designer.

The following code seems to be working for me.

anyway,
Thanks everyone for the help, was a bit stump on the container thing..

Schneider

This is working for me thanks to (Claes Bergfall):

'------------------------------------------------------------
Call GetStyle(ContainerControl) on it. Since it's protected you'll have
to use reflection to do it. This should do it:

Private Overloads Function GetStyle(ByVal ctrl As Control, ByVal style As
ControlStyles) As Boolean
    Dim flags As BindingFlags = BindingFlags.NonPublic Or
BindingFlags.Instance
    Dim types() As Type = {GetType(ControlStyles)}
    Dim methodInfo As MethodInfo
    methodInfo = ctrl.GetType.GetMethod("GetStyle", flags, Nothing, types,
Nothing)
    If methodInfo Is Nothing Then
        Throw New MissingMemberException
    Else
        Return CBool(methodInfo.Invoke(ctrl, New Object() {style}))
    End If
End Function

    /claes