Binary resource in Windows service?

[RFickling]

Hi,

I don't know if this is the appropriate forum for this question, but I don't know any other place to post it. I have a Windows service in which I have an embedded binary resource that I want to load at service startup. However, the API functions below fail with an exception or return NULL:

Both of these calls throw an exception when called by my service:

HINSTANCE hInstance = AfxGetInstanceHandle();

HINSTANCE hInstance = AfxGetResourceHandle();


This always returns a NULL when called by my service:

CWinApp* lpApp = AfxGetApp();
hInstance = lpApp->m_hInstance;

How can I access this resource?

Thanks,
Royce