Re: Reading a file from DLL.

From: S. Han (_at_)
Date: 06/03/04 

Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2004 10:27:16 -0700

Is it possible for exe to pass the full path to the file to DLL?

Or perhaps the file can always stay in the same directory as the exe, and
have the DLL figure out the "working directory" of exe. 

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"Ramesh" <ramesh.babu@hp.com> wrote in message 
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> Hello everybody,
>
> I have exe (a.exe) file that runs on COM+ environement the
> executable loads a dll(b.dll) which has a reference to a
> XML file which the dll uses to parse.
>
> The problem is that I am unable to provide in a proper
> location where the dll could read in the XML file. As the
> exe file could be executed from any process.
>
> Could anyone let me know a way to place the xml file from
> where the dll could parse it no matter from where the exe
> file is executed.
>
> Thanks and Regards
> Ramesh

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