Ok, I have a VB project with several forms that have the mappoint activex control embedded on them... problem is that it's not guaranteed that the users of my app will have mappoint installed on the pc... I know that I can determine if mappoint is installed by looking in the registry but that doesn't help the fact that if it's not installed then I will get a run time error cause the object is on serveral forms...

Any ideas of how to get around this?