1: I've never used COM much before, so please bear with me 2: I am trying to use a COM object, and I think that I have to call CoInitializeEx before I can call CoCreateInstance successfully. However, when I write CoInitializeEx(NULL, COINIT_MULTITHREADED); I get the errors: main.cpp(146) : error C2065: 'COINIT_MULTITHREADED' : undeclared identifier main.cpp(146) : error C3861: 'CoInitializeEx': identifier not found, even with argument-dependent lookup I have copied that line out of a tutorial. I looked up the function on MSDN and found the header file to be objbase.h, and I have also included that. IntelliSense seems to be able to find the declaration of both CoInitializeEx and COINIT_MULTITHREADED, because a parameter list pops up for CoInitializeEx and the actual definition pops up for COINIT_MULTITHREADED. Also, the compiler is NOT complaining that it cannot find objbase.h, and when I right click on #include <objbase.h> and view the file, I CAN find definitions for both of these things. I have also tried including everything that the tutorial (from the DX9 SDK) includes, to no avail. Does anyone know what might be going wrong? This is very frustrating Thanks for any help~ Riley Edit: PS: Those are the only 2 errors I get when I try to build. When I remove the call the project builds perfectly. [edited by - rileyriley on February 7, 2004 12:38:53 PM]

upon a more careful reading of objbase.h, I figured out that I needed to include _WIN32_DCOM in my preprocesser definitions. Now it works fine - thanks for reading this anyway

I believe the COM stuff is defined in ole32.lib - I''m not sure about the crt debug stuff.