if you have for example a type name string in a file for example string typeName = "System.Security.Permissions.FileIOPermission"; you can do the following to get the type Type permType = Type.GetType(typeName); and then you can instanciate your type like so: object permission = Activator.CreateInstance(permType);

THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU! I couldn't understand why there wasn't a way implemented in managed code to find them. Thanks again Dan

Yuck. We had something similar in my last job. How we got stuff to work: 1. All the FORTRAN stuff was self-contained in its own static library. 2. Any functions interfacing to C++ were clearly designated in a header/source file that wrapped around the Fortran. 3. Be really careful with strings, as they are encoded differently in Fortran and C++. It was still a pain in the butt, but that's how we did it. The suggestion somebody else mentioned to use a DLL would also work pretty well, we did that in some other cases. Even a broken clock is right twice a day.

You can change the font for the whole dialog by bringing up the properties for the window in the dialog editor. This font will be used by everything else on the dialog too, though -- Help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit!