How to color the text in microsoft visual c++?

[abhijeetcn]

I know the function textcolor() included in conio.h in borland compiler.
but this function is not present in vc++. also if you can provide me the text formatting functions,or header file containing it. i will be very thankful.......so please help me......thanks

[Ancient Dragon]

You have to use win32 api console functions.. And check out the console object here for example code

[Colin Mac]

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[manimurugan]

system("color 0C");
THIS FUNCTION TO USE
0...9 ->BACKGROUNDCOLOR
A,B..F->TEXTCOLOR

[manimurugan]

system("color 0C");
THIS FUNCTION TO USE
0...9 ->BACKGROUNDCOLOR
A,B..F->TEXTCOLOR
BY
MANIMURUGAN

[[Alpha]-0mega-]

Actually 0-9 A-F can be used for both background and text-color