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In case anybody is interested... i figured this out (it wasn't easy). VC tries to do a name match between project configurations. If one project is dependant on another, and the other project doesn't have a configuration with an exact name match as the dependant one, it will do a "best guess" name match. In my case, my main project configurations were: Main - Win32 Main - Win32 External Main - Win32 Eval Sub - Win32 Sub - Win32 Eval When compiling, Main - Win32 External, it looked at all the configs in Sub to try and find a match. Since it couldn't, it picked the closest match, which was Sub - Win32 Eval, and tried to compile it (which is not what I wanted). So I changed the names to: Main - Win32 Exec Main - Win32 External Main - Win32 Demo Sub - Win32 Exec Sub - Win32 Demo and everything worked beautifully. Now when compiling Main External, it will find that the config name matches more closely to Sub Exec then Sub Demo. One of those undocumented features, I guess.

Well, I finally got it figured out, in case anybody is curious. The compiler directive should be dllexport when compiling the dll, and dllimport when compiling the exe. #ifdef _DLL_ #define DLL_GLOBAL __declspec(dllexport) #else #define DLL_GLOBAL __declspec(dllimport) #endif

Since an edit control has no non-client area the article you found is probubly the best place to start. Trust in the code Luke. Yea right!

Did you not read all of the documentation? It states: If the uFlags parameter includes the SHGFI_USEFILEATTRIBUTES flag, this parameter does not have to be a valid file name. The function proceeds as if the file exists with the specified name and with the file attributes passed in the dwFileAttributes parameter. This enables you to obtain information about a file type by passing just the extension for pszPath and passing FILE_ATTRIBUTE_NORMAL in dwFileAttributes. That implies that this will work: SHFILEINFO fi; CString strExtension; m\_ebExtension.GetWindowText(strExtension); if (SHGetFileInfo(strExtension, FILE\_ATTRIBUTE\_NORMAL, &fi, sizeof(fi), SHGFI\_USEFILEATTRIBUTES | SHGFI\_TYPENAME) != 0) { m\_staticAssocApp.SetWindowText(fi.szTypeName); } If you still do not want to use SHGetFileInfo(), try this. It's from the top of my head so you may have to tweak it: HKEY hKey; CString strExtension; TCHAR szValue\[128\]; LONG lSize; m\_ebExtension.GetWindowText(strExtension); if (RegOpenKey(HKEY\_CLASSES\_ROOT, strExtension, &hKey) == ERROR\_SUCCESS) { lSize = sizeof(szValue); RegQueryValue(hKey, \_T(""), szValue, &lSize); RegCloseKey(hKey); if (RegOpenKey(HKEY\_CLASSES\_ROOT, szValue, &hKey) == ERROR\_SUCCESS) { lSize = sizeof(szValue); RegQueryValue(hKey, \_T(""), szValue, &lSize); RegCloseKey(hKey); m\_staticAssocApp.SetWindowText(szValue); } }