gogobob wrote: I ve been coding for some years in C++ now. But, seeing all the fuss about .net I m beginning to wonder about learning it. You'll need to learn it eventually if you do typical business apps. and plan to stay within the Microsoft camp. Main advantages are what Steven says in his post. I think C++ will become more niche, i.e., restricted to systems programming, games, high performance, real-time and so on. gogobob wrote: Since I see that microsoft hardly provides VC anymore Why do you say that? You can still continue doing classic Win 32 development. Kevin

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I am not sure what you mean by 'version window' :~ Do you possibly mean you want to add a version RESOURCE so that you can see the file version information when you get properties from Explorer, for example?

There are ways a DLL can be loaded. 1/ Implicitly. This is the usual way. It happens if you link to the DLL when you are creating your EXE. When the DLL is loaded, the DllMain function is called, and static variables in that module (DLL) are initialed. This happens once for each process. See DllMain for more detail. 2/ Explicitly. This happens at runtime, by the SDK function LoadLibrary. There are articles on codeproject about DLLs for beginners. I would recommend looking there. Iain.

Have you switched off automatic menu updating? Normally MFC apps use the CCmdUI related stuff to do menu updating during idle time or when a menu is to be shown. It might be that the default handling of this is undoing any changes you make. Steve S

Hi, you can try to use the MSCOMM32.OCX for that. Otherwise you can find a serial class here: http://www.naughter.com Regards Mark