Determine the current HINSTANCE?

Question

The HINSTANCE of a win32 application is passed to WinMain, but is there any other way of determining the current HINSTANCE (in case you couldn\'t tell, I\'m very new to win32 pr

Answer 1

The function AfxGetStaticModuleState() does the trick. If you call it within a dll, the functions returns the handle to the dll, if the call within a exe it returns the handle to the executable.

DWORD size;
TCHAR fileName [MAX_PATH];
HMODULE hModule = AfxGetStaticModuleState()->m_hCurrentInstanceHandle;
::GetModuleFileName (hModule, fileName, size);