Also you can use CString class as, CString str(""); LONG l = 5; str.Format("The Number is %ld Apples", l); MessageBox(str); Do your Duty and Don't expect the Result

see me wrote: GetWindowText (CString& rString) const Thanks for your comment. But just have a look at your post:sigh:. Shouldn't it be: CString str; m_editBox.GetWindowText(str); No personnel issues but just to.......:-D say that we don't post the code here that is always optimized. Somethings seem HARD to do, until we know how to do them. ;-)_AnShUmAn_

Zac Howland wrote: It would have started... True, in a sense. Zac Howland wrote: ...but as soon as any access to the control was made, it would have given an assertion (in debug) or just crashed (in release). Neither of which happened. It just went away quietly.

errors like these about 200 errors: debug\excel.tlh(1150) : error C2371: 'FontPtr' : redefinition; different basic types debug\excel.tlh(1228) : error C2786: 'BOOL (__stdcall *)(HDC,int,int,int,int)' : invalid operand for __uuidof debug\excel.tlh(1228) : error C2923: '_com_IIID' : 'Rectangle' is not a valid template type argument for parameter '_Interface'