Question

I am trying to create a shell extension but I’m getting a debug assertion at this line of code:

_AFXWIN_INLINE HINSTANCE AFXAPI AfxGetResourceHandle()
    { 
        ASSERT(afxCurrentResourceHandle != NULL);  // here
        return afxCurrentResourceHandle; }

What’s the problem with it?
I have created this class

class CMyExtShellExtApp : public CWinApp
{
public:
    virtual BOOL InitInstance();
    virtual int ExitInstance();

    DECLARE_MESSAGE_MAP()
};

BOOL CMyExtShellExtApp::InitInstance()
{   
    AFX_MANAGE_STATE(AfxGetStaticModuleState());
    return CWinApp::InitInstance();
}

int CMyExtShellExtApp::ExitInstance()
{
    return CWinApp::ExitInstance();
}

Still the error remains.

Answer 1

Try to put this line:

AFX_MANAGE_STATE(AfxGetStaticModuleState());

at the very beginning of the function causing the assertion in your code.