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Elevating your application for dummies: A step-by-step guide to elevate and write in the Registry

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8 Apr 2009CPOL3 min read 44K   411   30  
We are going to enable your application to write entries in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, elevating your application when necessary.
// stdafx.h : include file for standard system include files,
// or project specific include files that are used frequently,
// but are changed infrequently

#pragma once

#ifndef STRICT
#define STRICT
#endif

#include "targetver.h"

#define _ATL_APARTMENT_THREADED
#define _ATL_NO_AUTOMATIC_NAMESPACE

#define _ATL_CSTRING_EXPLICIT_CONSTRUCTORS	// some CString constructors will be explicit

#include "resource.h"
#include <atlbase.h>
#include <atlcom.h>
#include <atlctl.h>

using namespace ATL;


#include <comutil.h>
#ifdef _DEBUG
#pragma comment(lib, "comsuppwd.lib")
#else
#pragma comment(lib, "comsuppw.lib")
#endif

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