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Why is it possible to create a toolbar with the wrong HINSTANCE? And what's the right HINSTANCE anyway?

December 14, 2012 Dec 14, 2012 12/14/12

Raymond Chen

A customer observed that all of the following code fragments are successful in creating a toolbar common control: Furthermore, the customer observed that works regardless of whether you pass the process instance or for the parameter. First of all, what's going on? And second of all, which of the three methods above is most correct...