Re: Can dll find path where it's running from

From:
"Tom Serface" <tom.nospam@camaswood.com>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.mfc
Date:
Mon, 21 Jan 2008 17:06:47 -0800
Message-ID:
<udbHRMJXIHA.1376@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl>
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
news:fa024c3a-bda2-4d45-9e40-71c16984ff81@p69g2000hsa.googlegroups.com...

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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