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... would be great - but i obviously cant use Close() - as it's a keyword - even though the winsock control does.. is there a solution to this - or maybe an easier way to do all of it?
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Hey Andrew. So, you are creating a new active X control, right? In that case, couldn't you just map the methods to the UserControl object rather than raising events? In that case, the use of Close() would be fine....

Public Sub Winsock1_Close
UserControl.Close()
End Sub

.... I don't have the time to duplicate your situation right now, so I hope that I am not missing something. I will admit that my ActiveX control creation in VB is limited to a grand total of TWO controls.... but I have not raised events in those circumstances, just mapped them to corresponding UserControl methods.