Thanks for this info. However, looking at the IDropTarget, it looks like much more sophisticated than what I require. When files are dragged from explorer and dropped, I just need to know the filenames of the dropped files so that I can show them in a list inside my control. WM_DROPFILES does exactly same but doesn't seem to be working when the control is placed inside IE. Thanks for your help.

Hi, I was developing an ActiveX control that is to be embedded in IE. While trying to implement, I ran into this problem: I thought capturing the WM_DROPFILES message should be sufficient for providing drag and drop support of files (from file explorer) to the ActiveX control. While this works if the control is embedded in a thick client (say a VB form), it doesn't work when the control is embedded inside IE. IE's default handling of dropped files kicks in and it tries to open the file! I tried to look for help from the usual sources (MSDN, google etc) but most of them deal with MFC drag and drop support while I am using ATL and can't use any of those. Any help here would be greatly appreciated! Thanks, KR Nathan

Hi all, I have a rather strange requirement of establishing two dial-up connections through two external modems connected to my machine at the same time. The real problem is that I have to support browsing for each connection separately at the same time. I cannot use IE as the connection setting is global. I have been looking at various options like programmatic dialing using RAS, using browser control etc but in vain. Has anyone encountered this kind of problem before? Any pointers please? Thanks in advance, krnathan