Frontpage 2003 (ick!) beautifies XML. It is a very poor XML editor though (no surprise eh?).

soptest's code should be working in most cases, but first check if the object supports IPersist, IProvideClassInfo or IProvideClassInfo2. You can then obtain the class ID in a very simple way through: IPersist::GetClassID() IProvideClassInfo2::GetGUID() gertjan