Re: Why is my program loading stuff from ...\Microsoft Shared\Web Folders\...

From:
"Ajay Kalra" <ajaykalra@yahoo.com>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.mfc
Date:
Sun, 4 Mar 2007 21:41:19 -0500
Message-ID:
<eGUWz8sXHHA.4232@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl>
Just for kicks, try opening a different type of file(.htm or .pdf etc) and
see if that results in loading all these dlls. I think there is a specific
file has its associativity set to shareportal server of something on lines.

--
Ajay Kalra [MVP - VC++]
ajaykalra@yahoo.com

"Harvey" <harveyab@juno.com> wrote in message
news:1173003119.435699.167080@i80g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...

On Mar 3, 7:08 am, Joseph M. Newcomer <newco...@flounder.com> wrote:

Perhaps because you are using it? Would that be a good reason?

I did the obvious search on the Internet. PKWMS.DLL is Microsoft

SharePoint API support,

so presumably you are using this in your app. MSONSEXT.DLL is related

to the Microsoft

SharePoint support. NSEXTINT.DLL is related to Microsoft SharePoint

support. Gee, could

you be using Microsoft SharePoint interfaces in your app?

You too can figure this out trivially. Just go to google and type in

the name of the DLL.

                                                joe


No, I am not using anything like that in my program. Upon further
investigation these are loaded when my program attempts to open a non-
existant file on my desktop. The file is only a text file for testing
(x.txt as a matter of fact). I traced the execution path through the
MFC library code to the following point where I cannot step into the
system DLLs at the line indicated:

BOOL AFXAPI AfxResolveShortcut(CWnd* pWnd, LPCTSTR lpszFileIn,
LPTSTR lpszFileOut, int cchPath)
{
USES_CONVERSION;
AFX_COM com;
IShellLink* psl;
*lpszFileOut = 0; // assume failure

SHFILEINFO info;
if ((SHGetFileInfo(lpszFileIn, 0, &info, sizeof(info), //<-------STEP
OVER
SHGFI_ATTRIBUTES) == 0) || !(info.dwAttributes & SFGAO_LINK))
{
return FALSE;
}
// <etc.>

Stepping over that line produces all of the following:

Loaded 'C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\MSOSS.DLL', no matching symbolic information
found.
Loaded 'C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\CRYPT32.DLL', no matching symbolic
information found.
Loaded 'C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\WININET.DLL', no matching symbolic
information found.
Loaded 'C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\MSI.DLL', no matching symbolic information
found.
Loaded 'C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\HLINK.DLL', no matching symbolic information
found.
Loaded 'C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\URLMON.DLL', no matching symbolic
information found.
Loaded 'C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\OLEAUT32.DLL', no matching symbolic
information found.
Loaded 'C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\OLE32.DLL', no matching symbolic information
found.
Loaded 'C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\VERSION.DLL', no matching symbolic
information found.
Loaded 'C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\RPCRT4.DLL', no matching symbolic
information found.
Loaded 'C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Folders
\PKMWS.DLL', no matching symbolic information found.
Loaded 'C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Folders
\MSONSEXT.DLL', no matching symbolic information found.
Loaded 'C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\SHFOLDER.DLL', no matching symbolic
information found.
Loaded 'C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Folders
\1033\NSEXTINT.DLL', no matching symbolic information found.
Loaded 'C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\SHDOCVW.DLL', no matching symbolic
information found.
Loaded 'C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\MYDOCS.DLL', no matching symbolic
information found.

lpszFileIn is simply:
+ lpszFileIn 0x0079fb54 "c:\Windows\Desktop\x.txt"

That's a surprising amount of work (loading 16 more DLLs) to determine
that a file doesn't exist, don't you think? Just because I have a few
shortcuts on my Desktop? It must be the "Internet Shortcuts" (I have a
few saved links).
Thanks all for your comments,
Harvey

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