Re: COBOL and VB6

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From: Craig Powers
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 00:00

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awoa wrote:
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> I want to pass data between a VB6 front and a COBOL dll back.  Can anyone
> tell me what I'm looking at here?  Can VB6 find the entry point in any COBOL
> dll?  Does it depend on the COBOL compiler?

It depends on the compiler -- VB can handle two types of DLLs, ActiveX
DLLs and plain Win32 DLLs.  VB expects exports from Win32 DLLs to use
the stdcall calling convention, and aside from that requirement the only
other thing you would have to worry about would be interaction of
argument types (figuring out what is equivalent in the two languages).
I have zero COBOL experience, so I can't speculate as to any likely
issues in that regard.

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Date: 2000/07/27
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