Question

Can anyone help me to load values in a STRINGTABLE in vc++ programmatically? I’m using the MFC.

Answer 1

You can have a custom resource where you would put a text file. At runtime, read that text file as resource.

void GetResourceAsString(int nResourceID, CStringA &strResourceString)
{
    HRSRC hResource = FindResource(NULL, MAKEINTRESOURCE(nResourceID),  L"DATA");

    HGLOBAL hResHandle = LoadResource(NULL, hResource);

    // Resource is ANSII
    const char* lpData = static_cast<char*> ( LockResource(hResHandle) );    
    strResourceString.SetString(lpData, SizeofResource(NULL, hResource));

    FreeResource(hResource);
}

Where DATA would be your custom resource type, and nResource would be resource-id under DATA resource type. Of course, you can choose another other name rather than “DATA”.