Starting an EXE-file provided in my application as binary resource

[G.Ben]

Hello,

is there a possibility to start an exe file which is included in the resource of my application without extraction is to HDD before ?

Thx,

G.Ben

[RoyK]

Sounds like a s/virus writers dream tool. Windows has to be able to see it to run it. If everything was in a DLL, you could simply load the DLL right into memory and just call the relevant functions. That's one of the reason why I don't down load too many DLLs. You just never know what's in them.