The only reason it may not work is because you are using MFC in shared DLLs -- check _AFXDLL preprocessor definition and if it's defined you may use the following code: // search app specific classes AFX_MODULE_STATE* pModuleState = AfxGetModuleState(); AfxLockGlobals(CRIT_RUNTIMECLASSLIST); for (pClass = pModuleState->m_classList; pClass != NULL; pClass = pClass->m_pNextClass) { if (lstrcmpA(szClassName, pClass->m_lpszClassName) == 0) { AfxUnlockGlobals(CRIT_RUNTIMECLASSLIST); return pClass; } } AfxUnlockGlobals(CRIT_RUNTIMECLASSLIST); #ifdef _AFXDLL // search classes in shared DLLs AfxLockGlobals(CRIT_DYNLINKLIST); for (CDynLinkLibrary* pDLL = pModuleState->m_libraryList; pDLL != NULL; pDLL = pDLL->m_pNextDLL) { for (pClass = pDLL->m_classList; pClass != NULL; pClass = pClass->m_pNextClass) { if (lstrcmpA(szClassName, pClass->m_lpszClassName) == 0) { AfxUnlockGlobals(CRIT_DYNLINKLIST); return pClass; } } } AfxUnlockGlobals(CRIT_DYNLINKLIST); #endif For an example of usage check code for CRuntimeClass* PASCAL CRuntimeClass::Load(CArchive& ar, UINT* pwSchemaNum) in MFC ArcCore.cpp file -- above example is taken from it -- it's used to load class during serialization... It just have to work, otherwise serialization cannot be achieved... Regards, Igor "...Ability to type is not enough to become a Programmer. Unless you type in VB. But then again you have to type really fast..." Me

You don't need to understand the assembly. INT 3 is how Visual C++ stops the program if an assertion failure happens. If you don't know what that means, look up what the assert() macro does. What has happened is that some code somewhere has noticed that something has gone wrong and stopped the program for you, where it happened, so that you can do something about it. For example, if you call strlen() like this: char* p = NULL ; size_t n = strlen(p) ; strlen() might be smart enough to detect that you passed in a NULL pointer and assert. So bring up the call stack as I suggested and you can see exactly where your program was when it stopped. And pressing F11 a few times *might* get out of the assembly code and back to some C source code. he he he. I like it in the kitchen! - Marc Clifton (on taking the heat when being flamed) Awasu v0.4a[^]: A free RSS reader with support for Code Project.

Ah - what is the document ? If it's a custom thing, abstract the loading code into a class, then you can call it from where-ever you like. Christian No offense, but I don't really want to encourage the creation of another VB developer. - Larry Antram 22 Oct 2002 C# will attract all comers, where VB is for IT Journalists and managers - Michael P Butler 05-12-2002 Again, you can screw up a C/C++ program just as easily as a VB program. OK, maybe not as easily, but it's certainly doable. - Jamie Nordmeyer - 15-Nov-2002