*laugh* ... couldn't have said it better myself!
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As far as I am concerned, database work is one step above root canal dentistry.
-----Original Message----- From: program-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:program-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Justin Daubenmire Sent: 15 September 2005 14:55 To: program-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [program-l] Re: VB6: How can I use a VC++6 DLL Installed in the Same Folder as the VB Application?
hi mark. Speaking of fun db tasks... as fun as converting an oracle 10g db to an sql server 2000 db? that was my last one *laugh*
Justin
----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Long" <Mark.Long@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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theYou are welcome. It is more fun than the DB development job that I am currently doing.
-----Original Message----- From: program-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:program-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of gerald.g.weichbrodt@xxxxxx Sent: 14 September 2005 18:45 To: program-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [program-l] Re: VB6: How can I use a VC++6 DLL Installed inApplication?Same Folder as the VB Application?
Thanks Mark. I think I remember seeing some of this stuff in the discussion of side-by-side DLLs in discussions about the Windows Installer and other such. Must not have sunk in well. Thanks again.
Jerry
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This will only work with a compiled app but if you put the DLL in the VB6 directory and then create a VB6.EXE.LOCAL then it willthepick up the version in that directory.
-----Original Message----- From: program-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:program-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of gerald.g.weichbrodt@xxxxxx Sent: 14 September 2005 18:06 To: program-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [program-l] Re: VB6: How can I use a VC++6 DLL Installed infile?Same Folder as the VB Application?
Thanks Mark. Should this work if you're running an app in the VB environment? or only when it's been compiled and you run the .EXEApplication?As well, am I correct that the file just has to exist in the application directory but needn't contain anything?
Thanks a lot, Jerry
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Windows will search the current directory and then the path. However, you can override this. Assume that your app is called MyApp. Create a file called MyApp.Exe.Local. This will cause Windows to load all DLLs and OCX files from the same directory as the application regardless of current directory or path.
-----Original Message----- From: program-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:program-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of gerald.g.weichbrodt@xxxxxx Sent: 14 September 2005 16:00 To: program-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [program-l] VB6: How can I use a VC++6 DLL Installed in the Same Folder as the VB Application?
The subject doesn't really do my question justice, so here's what I'm really asking.
Let's suppose I write a VB program and package it, say, with eitherbeVisual Studio Installer or the Package and Deployment Wizard. In this case, I'd just about certainly using Visual Studio Installer, just in case anybody wonders. The important points are these: I want the user toable to change the default install location for the program in casetheywant to do so. Further, I'd like to have the installer drop a littleCtheDLL into the program directory to do some low-level manipulation in memory that's a little hard to do directly in VB. To give access to the functions in the C DLL, I'd stick a "Declare" statement for each function at the top of my VB form. This Declare statement needs to give a location forcompleteDLL holding each function. For instance, one of my Declares might be something like:
Private Declare Function UInt82Hex Lib "Type2Hex" Alias "uint82hex" (ByVal InVal As Byte, ByVal OutVal As String) As String
My concern is about that clause 'Lib "Type2Hex"'. If I give apath to the DLL, then I run into trouble if the user decides to puttheapplication (and with it the DLL) into a different folder somewhere.IftheI don't give any path information, then it becomes uncertain, I think, whether the DLL will be found at any given time based on what the computer considers to be the current directory. So is there any way I can make sure the application's path will be used when my program tries to accessDLL?
Thanks, Jerry
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