Either you do your thing in the constructor or after Window is loaded. You need to articulate what you want.

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Thanks. Like all good ideas it looks obvious after the fact.

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I posted a feedback issue https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=463503 Essentially code that was working in VC6 listed below does not compile: const char* trimChars = "\\/|*?'\"<>;:"; std::remove_if( fileName.begin(), fileName.end(), std::bind1st(std::ptr_fun(strchr),trimChars) ); The only work around I could think of was to wrap strchr inside another function like this: char const* compare(char const* str, int c) { return ::strchr(str,c); } Is this a bug in the compiler or am I missing something? --Joe

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