Getting full path to my application - How?

[roujesky]

I want to put version information in my About box and an audit table in my db. To do this, I call GetFileVersionInfoSize(), which requires a full path to my exe. Surely there is a MFC or WinAPI call that will get me that info. Can someone point me to the call?

thanx

[mwilliamson]

Its always argv[0].

[paulina_lui]

char szAppPath[MAX_PATH] = "";
CString strAppDirectory;

::GetModuleFileName(0, szAppPath, sizeof(szAppPath) - 1);

// Extract directory
// Note, that the extra spaces around \\ are only for display //reasons here...
strAppDirectory = szAppPath;//AfxMessageBox(strAppDirectory );
strAppDirectory = strAppDirectory.Left(strAppDirectory.ReverseFind('\\'));

[roujesky]

That was exactly what I needed!

[HalD]

MSDN says this about GetFileVersionInfoSize:


lptstrFilename [in] Pointer to a null-terminated string that specifies the name of the file of interest. The function uses the search sequence specified by the LoadLibrary function.

So you shouldn't need to specify the full path.

Regards,
Hal

[Andreas Masur]

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