Re: Can dll find path where it's running from
If you need your main application to find it you can do something like the
following code as well:
CString csModulePath;
// Get the full path for the DLL from the resource handle. csFilename is
just the filename of the DLL.
TCHAR *p;
SearchPath(NULL,csFilename,NULL,MAX_PATH,csModulePath.GetBuffer(MAX_PATH),&p);
csModulePath.ReleaseBuffer();
Tom
"alexl" <alextheblade@gmail.com> wrote in message
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hi, I made a mfc-using dll, can I have it programatically find itself
so it knows where on the hard drive it is being run from?
This is In order to find itself to load its manifest because I want to
have it programatically load its own manifest instead of using
resource id 2.
Or even better...
In the documentation of the CreateActCtx function,
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa375125(VS.85).aspx
there is a reference to ACTCTX_FLAG_MANIFESTSTREAM_REQUEST flag, and
the ManifestStream member of ACTCTX however neither exist in my Visual
Studio. Do these really exist?
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