Can anyone please explain how to use these methods to set the properties of my usercontrol.

I have tried coding it in several ways, but i cannot figure out how to maintain the same value in the properties pane between design-time test runs, the values always revert to the defaults!

And if I add more than 1 of these controls on 1 form, the second and third.... instances dont even have the default properties!!!

this is driving my nuts.

Please help.