NightShade01

I'm having problems understand how .dll's work and how they are incorperated into a program. I know that they are libraries and contain information but for what?

King

I am sure Google would have got you an answer very quick. A very simple way of putting it is if you code a bunch of functions and classes that would be useful for a number of projects; you can compile them into a .dll and just include that .dll in other projects to be able to use those classes and functions instead of re-adding all that extra code. Do some googling and you can find a lot more detailed information.

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Bharathi

Hi,

Back in the Visual Basic 4 through Visual basic 6 days, we almost always thought of components and classes together. For instnace, when you created an ActiveX DLL in Visual Basic 4 through 6, you were really building a component that contained one or more classes. The classes were the implementation of the code, whereas the components were the container for the classes. When you compiled the component, Visual Basic generated either a .dll or an .exe extension.

In Visial Basic.net, you create projects that are compiled into assemblies. Asseblies are now the .dll or .exe implementation of the project and contain the MSIL that actually gets processed by the CLR. When you build the project, you place classes or classes that are called componenets in your project.

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