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How to get the application executable name in Windows (C++ Win32 or C++/CLI)?

hi,
i want to make my application run on statup,it uses some of files in the same directory.it works good but when it start at startup the GetCurrentDirectory is “c:\Documents and Settings\User\”..but i want the actual path of the exe file.how i can get it in c++.
please help me.
thanks.

Answer 1

Try using GetModuleFileName or GetModuleFileNameEx.

Do this:

wchar_t exeDirectory[1024]; //to store the directory
DWORD ret = GetModuleFileName(NULL, exeDirectory, 1024);
if ( ret )
{
  /*the path to your EXE is stored in the variable "exeDirectory" - use it */
}

Note I’m passing NULL as first argument, because MSDN says,

“If this parameter is NULL,
GetModuleFileName retrieves the path
of the executable file of the current
process.”

which is what you want. Right?