you should just be able to print a "backspace" character to make the cursor go back a position -- Help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit!

I got it. The name of the LocalService appid entry does not match the service name. I have chnage the IDS_SERVICENAME and ATL use a hardcoded name one time and I miss to change it.

:-D!! Joaquín M López Muñoz Telefónica, Investigación y Desarrollo

There are some different approaches. Do you want to add the controls to the browser (BHO) or to the document (ActiveX)? An article on BHO:s can be found here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnwebgen/html/bho.asp If you want the controls in the document, try an ActiveX Document Server. /moliate

I hate the messy ATL code and like MFC a lot. By the way, you don't have to do anything GUISH to use MFC (no need to get into flame mode, it's just my opinion).