I'm in the same crowd too, so take me into account:)

HOw can I turn off the Excel toolbars when launching it from within VC as a COM app?

Where can I find information on how to program interfaces as one in Windows Media Player 9 or something like that?

Can you provide a sample code?

I'm new to programming so I don't know much. How do I get a pointer to an in-memory device context if I want to move that area to another place, I don't mean bitblt and bitbltting to another dc but a portion of memory which I can operate on? Thanks