I'm trying to open menu of other applications programmatically, sending the messages a window receives when I click the menu items or when I press ALT+F then 'O' to open a file, for example. I've tried with: CWnd * pWnd= the window I want to control (I read the handle with Spy++ then I use CWnd::FromHandle); CMenu * pMenu=pWnd->GetMenu(); CMenu * pSubMenu=pMenu->GetSubMenu(0); // 0 correspond to "File" menu int MenuID=pSubMenu->GetMenuItemID(5); // 5 correspond to "Save as..." item pWnd->SendMessage(WM_COMMAND,MenuID,NULL); While this can work for Notepad, for other application it doesn't work (eg. with an instance of Visual C++). I searched on google and yesterday I found a source in VB that make use of CommandBar objects to invoke menu and I promised myself to give it a try (after installing the .NET 2003 Toolkit I've not downloaded yet [grin]). (I think it is easier to write a program like that with VB instead of VC++.) Can you suggest a link or a tutorial on using CommandBar and/or invoking menu of another application since I cannot find the VB source code I found yesterday? Any other suggestion (ie. open source project, other methods, etc.) will be surely helpful. Thank you very much in advance. :)