OK thanks for that. I will try but I doubt it will work. Scouring the web seems to indicate that SourceSafe cannot be integrated with C# .Net Standard ... unless somebody out there can definitely say otherwise. BazM

I have Visual Studio C++ V6. After updating with SP6 my SourceSafe became V6.0d. Fine. Now ... I just bought C# Std and guess what? it won't use my SourceSafe! C# actually tells me I've got SourceSafe Version 4.xx and I should upgrade to version 5 or higher. My SourceSafe About dialog says I've got V6.0d. Is there any way Visual Studio C++ V6 SourceSafe (or other SourceSafe?) can be used with C# standard? Many Thanks :((

Hi there and many thanks for your reply. I had already read this article but I dont think it helps with changing the background colour of an individual word. However, I just found a great article by Andrew Forget (CodeGuru) about Rich Edit 2 and I am hoping that this does the trick. Have a happy and prosperous new year! BazM

Hi, Can anyone please give me a clue about changing the background color of a word in a CRichEditCtrl control? I've seen the documentation on Rich Edit 2.0 (whereever that lives!) and CHARFORMAT2 but whenever I try it the background color remains unchanged. BazM :confused:

Hi, I eventually passed a long* ptr and casted back to CRichEditCtrl* in the COM method. Not nice but it seems to work. I hope to eventually discover the proper "COM" method of approaching this problem! BM :-O

Hi, I'm just starting to use COM dlls but have come across what I believe must be a common problem for brainwashed MFC folk... absolutely any suggestions would be welcome! I have a standard Windows app generated using Visual C++ V6.0 which uses a CRichEditCtrl control. The app is served by several COM dlls. I would really like to dedicate one of the COM dlls to displaying the information in the CRichEditCtrl control. The problem is how do I tell the COM dll the pointer to the control?. I have tried passing the control window handle (hwnd) and then using SendMessage(hwnd,,,). Thats OK for raw text but when I want to (say) get the defaultcharformat I really need the control's CRichEditCtrl* pointer. I guess I could pass a void ptr and then cast to CRichEditCtrl* - but this seems to go against good COM practice? Can anybody recommend a COM friendly solution and restore my initial enthusiasm to program with COM! Many Thanks BarryM :sigh: