>I have posted this in VFP 8 category but I believe posting this thread in this category is more appropriate.
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>Has anyone tried to use SetDllDirectory function to change dll search order? This function is referred in the following article:
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>http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dncode/html/secure06122003.asp
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>I wonder whether this function can be called in a VFP 8 application.
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>Thank you,
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Peter,

After looking at the function, it should be fairly easy to implement in VFP. Unfortunately, I can't test it here since I'm using a W2K box. The caveat is that you have to be running XP SP1, which I have at home. Here's the declaration of it and GetDllDirectory.

DECLARE INTEGER SetDllDirectory IN Win32API;
  STRING @lpPathName
* lcPathName is a series of paths separated 
* by semi-colons, Like a VFP path.
llresult = (SetDllDirectory(@lcPathName) # 0)

DELCARE INTEGER GetDllDirectory IN Win32API;
  INTEGER nBufferLen, STRING @lpBuffer
lnBufferLen = 260 && MAX_PATH
lcBuffer = SPACE(lnBufferLen)
lnBufferLen = GetDllDirectory(lnBufferLen, @lcBuffer)
? LEFT(lcBuffer, lnBufferLen)