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Nunezilla · #1 (**permalink**) 07-17-2008

My application has an embedded MapPoint 2006 control and works as expected when the current user is the same user that installed MapPoint. However, when another user logs in my application fails to find MapPoint. I've discovered the reason for this is that MapPoint is not registered for the current user; once the current user registers MapPoint (either by manually registering or by running MapPoint once) my application works again.

I'd like to register MapPoint for the current user through code when the application is run so that the user won't have to take the step of doing it manually. Anyone know if and how this can be done in MFC?

**Wilfried** · #2 (**permalink**) 07-18-2008

Hi,

An easy workaround is to run mappoint.exe from within your code at first start or during setup.

Nunezilla · #3 (**permalink**) 07-18-2008

Here's the solution I found, in case someone else comes along with the same problem:

Code:

STARTUPINFO si;
PROCESS_INFORMATION pi;

ZeroMemory( &si, sizeof(si) );
si.cb = sizeof(si);
ZeroMemory( &pi, sizeof(pi) );

if( !CreateProcess( NULL,   
    "\"C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Mappoint\\MapPoint.exe\" -regserver", 
    NULL, 
    NULL, 
    FALSE, 
    0, 
    NULL, 
    NULL,
    &si, 
    &pi )
    )
{
    return;
}

// Wait until child process exits.
WaitForSingleObject( pi.hProcess, INFINITE );

// Close process and thread handles. 
CloseHandle( pi.hProcess );
CloseHandle( pi.hThread );

You could add to this by reading the install directory from the registry instead of hard coding it.

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