David Mason mentioned this to Steve Batson:
 DM> Are Packages a bit like Visual Basic (am I allowed to
 DM> mention that in here? ) and VBRUNx00.DLL?
Sort of, yes.  But they have many other advantages.  For example, there are 
design-time packages that can contain a collection of components and 
controls. You can load and unload htese packages from the component palette 
at will, and even assign the packages to a project, so that when you load the 
project, it automatically makes those controls available.
                                ...Gary
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