In vb.net 2005, I have created a custom user control. The control works quite well at design time and at run time. However, if I try to "create" an instance of the control at run time (dim ctl = new foo()), This gives an error "type needed". In the intellisense autocomplete, it shows the "foo" object with an icon that looks like pair of brackets {}. any idea what I did wrong?

In IntelliSense, the {} braces mean a namespace. For example, if you type "Sys" you should see "{}System" in the IntelliSense list.

Probably this means you have your control in its own namespace. A Foo control inside the Foo namespace. If that's the case, then you should be able to create an instance of Foo.Foo.

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