MarkupObjects Tag Property as Variant

Many times I would like to associate ActiveX controls, classes, etc... with MarkupObjects. The easiest way to do this would be to assign them to the Tag property of the MarkupObject, but this tag only accepts other MarkupObject objects (not generic VB objects).

It would be very helpful if the MarkupObject.Tag property was a Variant data type that could handle everything a Variant type normally does in VB6.

Sadly, the Tag property only accepts other Markup objects. I don't think this is likely to change.

Some other possibilities:

You could create a TextBlock with a text value of 123 and store the MarkupTextBlock object in the Tag property.

Or you could keep a separate list of (array or collection) of your tag values.

Or you could use the Name property to store your tag values (if you aren't using name for anything yet).

Some news on this?