Creating a Windows DLL with Visual Basic

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Creating a Windows DLL with Visual Basic

by Ron Petrusha

04/26/2005 As the first rapid application development language, Visual Basic attracted attention for its elegant graphical interface and overall ease of use, which allowed a relatively inexperienced programmer to accomplish in minutes what often took days for advanced programmers using languages like C and C++. As a result, Visual Basic drew millions of new programmers, many of whom might never have even considered programming had it not been for the language's simplicity. Because of this simplicity, and because Visual Basic was attracting a following that the proponents of other languages could only dream of, non-Visual Basic programmers (who were really green with envy) counterattacked by pointing to the inexperience of most Visual Basic programmers and to the problems that stem from Visual Basic's design goal of shielding the developer from the complexities of the underlying operating system. To bolster their contention that Visual Basic is underpowered and underdeveloped, critics liked to point to the many things "real" programmers do that Visual Basic programmers cannot. Perhaps the most common limitation that critics continually point to is Visual Basic's inability to create a standard Windows dynamic link library (DLL).

Certainly it's true that out of the box, Visual Basic doesn't allow you to create a Windows DLL in the same way that you can create other project types, like a Standard EXE or an ActiveX DLL. In this article, we'll go exploring to see how Visual Basic generates its executables. In the process, we'll discover that with a little bit of extra work, we can in fact create Windows DLLs with Visual Basic.

What Is a Windows Dynamic Link Library?

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Edited August 28, 2009 by Nytro

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