Yes. It works perfectly. And it's very obvious... now that you point it out! :-O led Mike comes through again! Thank you.

Thank you.

An alternative to using the ATL macros is to use the _bstr_t class. It has constructors that take both ASCII and WIDE character sets, and have overloaded operators for both char* and wchar_t*. It will end up calling the same functions in the end (the MultiByteToWide, etc.) but it easier to read and debug since it isn't a macro. If you decide to become a software engineer, you are signing up to have a 1/2" piece of silicon tell you exactly how stupid you really are for 8 hours a day, 5 days a week Zac