Please do not mark it as a dupe of this question just yet:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1881865/bold-labels-in-mfc

That question does not help me; for some reason I do not see the rich edit control. Instead I believe I have to do it in code. here is a sample I found:

http://www.tech-archive.net/Archive/VC/microsoft.public.vc.mfc/2006-10/msg00245.html

My problem is that I prefer not to re-invent the wheel and test for errors myself or through QA.

Someone must have implemented this before. Please share your code.

What I would like to do is:

• Keep the same font size, family, etc. as in the already created label, but make it bold and italic as well.
• Keep the memory footprint reasonably low (do not create any new unnecessary objects), but do not get the app into an inconsistent state either.

I appreciate your help.