Calling VB DLLs from another VB program

[robdon]

Hi,

I'm having a bit of a problem with DLLs.

I have a DLL, that I have created in VB as follows....

1) Create ActiveX DLL
2) Made the Instancing 'GlobalMultiUse'
3) Created a sub

Public Sub rob()
Msgbox("Hello&quot
End Sub

4) Compiled the DLL and moved it to the same dir as where I will create the next project. (exe)

5) Registered it using regsvr32, but I dont think this is needed because I'm in Windows 2000.

Then I created another VB application (standard exe) to try to test my DLL, before I use it in another language.

I created a module and put the following in it...

Public Declare Sub rob Lib "project1.dll" ()

and then I put the following in the Click event of a button

rob

When I click the button I get the error message....

Can't find DLL entry point rob in project1.dll

I dont want to include it as a reference as this is not the way I wanted to test it. But... It does seem to work if its included as a reference.

Anyone any ideas on what I have done wrong?

Thanks,

Rob Donovan.

 

[JFoushee]

Have you tried going to Project, References..., Browsing for your .DLL, adding it to the list of References, checking the box beside it, then calling rob() ?

 

[kaz8896]

I could be wrong about this but I think your dll needs to be in the "C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32" directory. Try moving it there, registering it again, then try you other project again. Hope this helps.

 

[CasperTFG]

You have to reference it. There is no other way.

Why exactly don't you want to reference it? I work with DLL's and MTX quite a bit and may be able to help with what your trying to do. Craig, mailto:sander@cogeco.ca

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