This is an ASP.NET  ( WebForms ) user control we are talking about.
I know this is a VB.NET newsgroup, but no-one seems to be home over in
ASPNET NG.

I can create user controls, but whenever I place on on a page, it allways
ends up in the top left hand corner unless I create a panal for it to sit
in. Is this how it is supposed to work, am I doing something wrong or is
there a way around it ?

Newbie,

In ASPNET 1.x you have standard the fixed view. That is not as it is mostly
done in web.
(It changed again in 2.0)

The normal way to position things in Net is in my opinion still to put
things inside tables.

<table><tr><td>MyControl</td></tr></table>

Inside the the tags you can set the attributes

I hope this gives an idea.

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