http://blogs.msdn.com/gzunino/archive/2004/07/16/185842.aspxAs many of you already know, your custom pipeline component can expose properties by implementing IPersitPropertyBag . You can then specify the value of these properties at design time, in Visual Studio .NET 2003 and when your component is initialized,en-USCommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)http://blogs.msdn.com/gzunino/archive/2004/07/16/185842.aspx#187508Mon, 19 Jul 2004 15:04:00 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:187508Owen CutajarCute! .. must try this sometime.http://blogs.msdn.com/gzunino/archive/2004/07/16/185842.aspx#188895Tue, 20 Jul 2004 18:03:00 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:188895JesseeThank you that totally solved my problem. I did not make the connection between the "vt" attribute and the VARTYPE enum and didn't see that mentioned in the docs.http://blogs.msdn.com/gzunino/archive/2004/07/16/185842.aspx#211288Mon, 09 Aug 2004 14:39:00 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:211288Jeff LynchAny way to do this using a WMI script?