quick question about textcolor

how would you go about changing the text colour output in your c++ program,
i read that you can use the textcolor(); function in conio.h but that doesn't work.
i'm using microsoft visual c++.
any ideas?

Code:

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#include <windows.h>
// ...
SetConsoleTextAttribute( GetStdHandle( STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE ), Number from 0 to 255 );

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Only on Windows.

Thanks a million -