You know, I took a training class about a year ago on COM/ATL. The professor made a lot of jokes about this saying that the Visual Basic team probably handed over the autocomplete and dropdown method type functionality to the Visual C++ team.... but maybe not a complete version and the VC++ team just never got it right. It works so well in VB. Ah well, the "solution" is to go away from Microsoft for this one. Check out http://www.wholetomato.com. They have a plug-in for Visual C++ (5.0/6.0) called "Visual Assist". It is truly an excellent plug-in that massively improves on Microsoft's botched attempt. However, the program DOES replace the Visual C++ IDE but with the latest release of Visual Assist you get almost all the same functionality (colors and such) that Visual C++ gives you. It's still not perfect in my opinion, but I still love it

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