Silently catch windows error popups when calling LoadLibrary()

Question

Is it possible to silently catch errors popup like "the procedure entry point xxx could not be located int the dynamic link library xxx" when calling LoadLibrary() ?

Answer 1

You can suppress the error popups by calling SetErrorMode():

// GetErrorMode() only exists on Vista and higher,
// call SetErrorMode() twice to achieve the same effect.
UINT oldErrorMode = SetErrorMode(SEM_FAILCRITICALERRORS);
SetErrorMode(oldErrorMode | SEM_FAILCRITICALERRORS);

HMODULE library = LoadLibrary("YourLibrary.dll");

// Restore previous error mode.
SetErrorMode(oldErrorMode);

The call to LoadLibrary() will still fail, though.