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Accessing the current module’s HINSTANCE from a static library

October 25, 2004 Oct 25, 2004 10/25/04

Raymond Chen

If you're writing a static library, you may have need to access the HINSTANCE of the module that you have been linked into. You could require that the module that links you in pass the HINSTANCE to a special initialization function, but odds are that people will forget to do this. If you are using a Microsoft linker, you can take advantage ...