Hi, if you like i can send you a CPropertySheet derived class that exactly does what you asked for. Best regards Holger

"Depending on an argument to the constructor of the dialog..." Well, if you have dialog on the resource it will have the styles specified in resource editor, how can you change it? It doesnot create dialog like window. It loads it from the resource. Well, another option - create 2 dialogs in resource editor with different styles and load appropriate dialog from the resource.

Dear Magesh, In the forum, you posted: "This call returns the error code SE_ERR_NOASSOC (0x1f) and does not display the property sheet for the file. What's wrong with this code?" I'm not sure, but I think that the "properties" and some other new verbs are only available on Windows 2000. The only ones available for Windows 95/98/NT are "open" "explore" and "print." (I think.) :) Cheers, Brian Hart