Re: DLLs

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From: George R. Torralba
Date: Mon, 04 Mar 1996 12:09

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I don't see why anyone should forget about DLLs and opt for OCXs based
on your argument.  Yeah it can fire events.  So what?  Did you mention
the overhead?  If the guy's just exporting functions why build an OCX?

George

In article , rodhew@intr.net (Rod Hewitt) wrote:

>david@baldar.abs.net wrote:
>
>>
>>Are there any good references out there on writing DLLs?  I just got MS C++ 
>>4.0.  Writing the .c is easy.  But the .def and .mak still eludes me (the 
>>online notes with MS C++ leave something to be desired).  Any recommendations? 
>>  Thanks.
>
>If your targetting the DLL at VB, I'd recommend you forget about DLLs
>and write OCXes instead. The App Wizard and Class Wizard make it very
>easy to write C++ code that interfaces to VB. Plus with OCXes you can
>easily fire events in VB and not have to worry about a ton of Define
>Function statements.
>
>Regards,
>Rod
>

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