Thanks for your response, the problem, I think, is that i don't want the event generated by the winsock (winsock1_close) to call a method in my user control, i just need it to raise an event in the calling procedure - so when winsock1_close happend in my usercontrol, i want a usercontrol1_close event to happen in the app which instantiates usercontrol1, my code would be

Event Close()

Private Sub Winsock1_Close()

RaiseEvent Close()

End Sub

.. this would be perfect (and works for other events such as ConnectionRequest, the only prob. is that close() isn't a valid identifier - because it's a keyword.

It looks likely that I will have to resort to Visual C++ to get this done.. sadly..

Thanks Anyway..

Andy