>>I'm not seeing the blue in the IDE - only in the UT message.
>
>In my IDE, when CType is typed, is appears in blue.

Depending on the context in which it is used? From my earlier example:

Dim c1 As Class1 = New Class1
        ' Ctype in black:
        Dim theLength As Integer = c1.Ctype.Length
        'Ctype in blue:
        Dim d As Double = CType(theLength, Double)

But I don't know how you would use Ctype as a converter within the namespace that defines CType as a string :-{