Obtain hinstance for hdc

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VladimirF, is technically right -- a handle for HINSTANCE is most likely to be the same value for most 32-bit processes. It is actually passed into your application in the WinMain() function. Technically speaking the HINSTANCE is partially a rudiment that was carried over from 16-bit Windows and by itself could not be used to uniquely identify a process. Here's some information for you to understand what it is used for:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/...18/409205.aspx

So if you need to specifically link a resource to a certain process a better way would be to tie it up to a process ID.