Limiting an Application to a Single Instance - The MFC Way

Armen Hakobyan

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Another approach for limiting application instance

In this article, you will find another approach to limit application to a single instance in the MFC way.

singleinstance_demo.zip
- SingleInstance_demo
  - Shared
    - WinAppEx.cpp
    - WinAppEx.h
  - SingleInstance.dsw
  - SingleInstance.sln
  - SingleInstDLG
    - res
      - SingleInstDLG.ico
      - SingleInstDLG.rc2
    - Resource.h
    - SingleInstDLG.cpp
    - SingleInstDLG.dep
    - SingleInstDLG.dsp
    - SingleInstDLG.dsw
    - SingleInstDLG.h
    - SingleInstDLG.mak
    - SingleInstDLG.rc
    - SingleInstDLG.sln
    - SingleInstDLG.vcproj
    - SingleInstDLGDlg.cpp
    - SingleInstDLGDlg.h
    - StdAfx.cpp
    - StdAfx.h
  - SingleInstMDI
    - ChildFrm.cpp
    - ChildFrm.h
    - MainFrm.cpp
    - MainFrm.h
    - res
      - SingleInstMDI.ico
      - SingleInstMDI.rc2
      - SingleInstMDIDoc.ico
      - Toolbar.bmp
    - Resource.h
    - SingleInstMDI.cpp
    - SingleInstMDI.dep
    - SingleInstMDI.dsp
    - SingleInstMDI.dsw
    - SingleInstMDI.h
    - SingleInstMDI.mak
    - SingleInstMDI.rc
    - SingleInstMDI.reg
    - SingleInstMDI.sln
    - SingleInstMDI.vcproj
    - SingleInstMDIDoc.cpp
    - SingleInstMDIDoc.h
    - SingleInstMDIView.cpp
    - SingleInstMDIView.h
    - StdAfx.cpp
    - StdAfx.h
  - SingleInstSDI
    - MainFrm.cpp
    - MainFrm.h
    - res
      - SingleInstSDI.ico
      - SingleInstSDI.rc2
      - SingleInstSDIDoc.ico
      - Toolbar.bmp
    - Resource.h
    - SingleInstSDI.cpp
    - SingleInstSDI.dep
    - SingleInstSDI.dsp
    - SingleInstSDI.dsw
    - SingleInstSDI.h
    - SingleInstSDI.mak
    - SingleInstSDI.rc
    - SingleInstSDI.reg
    - SingleInstSDI.sln
    - SingleInstSDI.vcproj
    - SingleInstSDIDoc.cpp
    - SingleInstSDIDoc.h
    - SingleInstSDIView.cpp
    - SingleInstSDIView.h
    - StdAfx.cpp
    - StdAfx.h
singleinstance_src.zip
- SingleInstance_src
  - WinAppEx.cpp
  - WinAppEx.h
singleinstance_exe.zip
- SingleInstance_exe
  - SingleInstDLG.exe
  - SingleInstMDI.exe
  - SingleInstSDI.exe

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Armen Hakobyan

Software Developer (Senior) SafeNet Inc

United States

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