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"The man who reads nothing is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers."- Thomas Jefferson

"The man who reads nothing is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers."- Thomas Jefferson

"The man who reads nothing is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers."- Thomas Jefferson

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//hide the window<br />
  if (IsWindowVisible())<br />
    {<br />
        ShowWindow(SW_HIDE);<br />
        ModifyStyle(WS_VISIBLE, 0);<br />
    }

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AnimateWindow(m_hWnd,500,AW_HIDE | AW_SLIDE | AW_VER_POSITIVE);<br />

#include "stdafx.h"
#include "resource.h"

#include <TCHAR.h>

int APIENTRY WinMain(HINSTANCE hInstance,
                     HINSTANCE hPrevInstance,
                     LPSTR     lpCmdLine,
                     int       nCmdShow)
{
  HRSRC hRsrc = ::FindResource( hInstance,
                                MAKEINTRESOURCE( IDR_TEXTFILE ),
                                _T("TEXTFILE") ); // *** My custom res type

  if ( NULL != hRsrc )
  {
    HGLOBAL hGlob = ::LoadResource( NULL, hRsrc );

    if ( NULL != hGlob )
    {
      DWORD dwSize  = ::SizeofResource( NULL, hRsrc );
      LPVOID lpVoid = ::LockResource( hGlob );

      if ( NULL != lpVoid )
      {
        // *** Now you can work with the loaded resource.

        // *** In this case, we now it is a text file,
        // *** so cast it to a string
        LPCTSTR lpszString = reinterpret_cast< LPCTSTR>( lpVoid );

        MessageBox( NULL, lpszString, _T("From resource"), MB_OK );
      }
    }
  };

  return 0;
}

LPCTSTR lpszString = reinterpret_cast< LPCTSTR>( lpVoid );
TCHAR *tcBuffer    = new TCHAR[ dwSize + 1 ];
if ( NULL != tcBuffer )
{
  ZeroMemory( tcBuffer, ( dwSize + 1 ) * sizeof( TCHAR ) );
  memcpy( tcBuffer, lpszString, dwSize * sizeof( TCHAR ) );
}