How to find out the instance of the user control like Runtime or Designtime

Dude, it's almost Halloween and it's 70 degrees in Pgh. Even though that's easy, I'm going to have to not answer that question on the basis that I need to get a life. Look it up, search for application state. System.Reflection.Assembly might have something--GetExecutingAssembly might work... No offense, but now that you have the idea, you should learn to look it up. Search the web for other design-time examples and see how they do it. This stuff is kinda new to the developer community and Microsoft doesn't exactly give away their source code; so, that in mind, we all have to play our part in learning on our own. Yeah, it's been a bad day ;)

I forgot to mention as it is in case of Windows Application. But not in case of Web Application. So what is the fix in case of Windows application. Thanks Vijay

if (System.Web.HttpContext.Current == null) { ... }