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Get application's full path, MFC, using AfxGetApp()->m_pszExeName, GetModuleHandle and GetModuleFileName

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For C++ MFC applications, this code gets the full path of the application (even if the application is a DLL run with RunDll32).

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  1. AfxGetApp()->m_pszExeName; // Get the "MyExe" portion of "MyExe.exe". Or, "MyDll" if RunDll32 is used.
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  3. dllName.Append( ".exe" ); // Now has "MyExe.exe" (or "MyDll.dll").
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  5. HMODULE hmod = GetModuleHandle(dllName);  
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  7. CString fullPath;
  8. DWORD pathLen = ::GetModuleFileName( hmod, fullPath.GetBufferSetLength(MAX_PATH+1), MAX_PATH); // hmod of zero gets the main EXE
  9. fullPath.ReleaseBuffer( pathLen ); // Note that ReleaseBuffer doesn't need a +1 for the null byte.

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