Calling an Exported Function in an EXE from Within a DLL
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Mohamed Mustafa Z. - 02/05/2003
Explore a better way of calling a function in an exe file from a dependent DLL of the same EXE. (i.e.) Calling a DLL's function from an EXE is the normal way, this is the vise versa of the it.

Dialogs in DLL
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Randy More - 10/01/2002
Dialogs in DLL

Remote Library Loading
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John Peloquin - 05/24/2002
Customize existing applications through use of custom DLLs and with "Remote Library Loading" and with a utility created here called the Remote Library Loader.

Share the View/Doc Architecture in a DLL
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Alexandre Komyak - 04/26/2002
Learn how to help your applications share a large part of the their code. Do this by running MFC's View/Doc architecture (notably frame, controls, and dialogs) all from a shared DLL.

Wrapper Classes for Dynamic DLL Loading
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Petko Popov - 04/24/2002
A wrapper classes for dynamic DLL loading.

DLL_Callback: Sample for asyncronous inner-process operations.
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HarryF - 03/28/2002
DLL_Callback: Sample for asyncronous inner-process operations.

Who's Locking? v1.3
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Emmanuel KARTMANN - 08/07/2001
Update of a devpt/system management tool to find which process is locking a DLL.

Injecting a DLL into Another Process's Address Space
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Zoltan Csizmadia - 09/21/2000
Code to perform one standard method (DLL Injection) of API Hooking, or Interception

CSelf XResource
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Michael Becker - 08/22/2000
Class for self extracting binary resources

Tips for using Dynamic Link Libraries (DLLs) with MFC
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xicoloko - 08/18/2000
Tips on using DLLs from MFC applications

Creating statically linked, non-MFC DLLs
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Tair Abdurman - 02/05/2000
Creating statically linked, non-MFC DLLs

Display Loaded Modules
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Emmanuel KARTMANN - 01/03/2000
Display Loaded Modules

Runtime 'Dynamic' DLL calling
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Adam Straughan - 07/13/1999
Runtime 'Dynamic' DLL calling

Application Specific Paths for DLL Loading
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William A. Walseth - 06/19/1999
Application Specific Paths for DLL Loading

Dynamic Link Libraries With Microsoft Foundation, Just the Facts.
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Christopher A. Snyder - 05/17/1999
Dynamic Link Libraries With Microsoft Foundation, Just the Facts.

Exporting '& Importing classes and functions when building multiple DLLs
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Xiangyang (Sean) Liu - 04/18/1999
Standard approach outlined in MSDN article

Getting the complete information about DLL/Exe module
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Naveen Kohli - 01/15/1999
Getting the complete information about DLL/Exe module

Remapping resource script ID's
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John Weeder - 08/07/1998
Remapping resource script ID's

Export dialogs in MFC Extension DLLs
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Andreas Leitner - 08/07/1998
Export dialogs in MFC Extension DLLs

Determine DLL version number
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Eran Yariv - 08/07/1998
Determine DLL version number

Using one extension DLL in another
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Randy More - 08/07/1998
Using one extension DLL in another

Hooking

WinAPI Hooking
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Andriy Oriekhov - 06/08/2006
Learn to intercept WinAPI calls.

Hooking a DirectX/COM Interface
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Martin Mueller - 05/19/2006
Learn how to hook a DirectX/COM Interface. The DirectInput interface was used as an example of how to hook an interface function.

Hijack Textout Calls From Notepad
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Wei Junping - 04/04/2002
Sample hook function that works even if the DLL is loaded by calling LoadLibrary or the DLL isn't used by the hooked module directly.

APIHijack - A Library for Easy DLL Function Hooking.
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Wade Brainerd - 01/31/2001
Enables you to hook third-party DLL functions

Import/Export issues

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Create MySQL 5.1 Storage Engine Plugins Under Win32
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Ludwig Ertl - 11/15/2007
A MySQL Storage engine requires functions that MySQL provides. Therefore, you normally need to link it into mysqld-core under Windows because mysqld.exe doesn't export all required functions (because it's an .exe, not a .dll). So, you're unable to import the required functions in our Plugin. Learn a possible way to circumvent this limitation by using the .map files that are provided with MySQL.

Utilizing Delphi Codes in VC Without Using a DLL
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Joerding - 10/16/2002
This article demonstrates an approach to utilizing Delphi codes in VC applications by converting Delphi DLL into static libraries with DLL to Lib. So in this way you can distribute your apps without extra DLLs.

Explicitly Linking to Classes in DLL's
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V. Rama Krishna - 01/18/2000
Explicitly Linking to Classes in DLL's

Interfacing to Visual Basic applications

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Handling VB strings (as part of an array of UDT)
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Brian Cohrs - 12/10/1998
Handling VB strings (as part of an array of UDT)

Mixed DLLs

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Library for MFC Applications' Localization Using Resource-Only DLLs
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Sergey Markov - 06/09/2006
Multilingual Library adds multiple UI languages' support to your MFC application.

Application's Version Updating from a FTP Resource
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Andrej Hristoliubov - 02/15/2005
Use the IOUpdate.dll library to automatically update your application from the Internet.

The Mixed DLL Loading Problem
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Kate Gregory - 03/18/2003
Microsoft announced a potentially serious bug that affects only Visual C++ developers using VS.NET 2002 and VS.NET 2003 to create mixed DLLs. While only a few may be impacted by this, all Visual C++ programmers should be aware of it.

Open FAQ

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Determining Whether a DLL or EXE Is a Managed Component
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kirants - 07/25/2007
Learn how to check whether or not a component is a .NET managed component. Also, learn to get other information, such as dependent assemblies, from the metadata using Microsoft APIs and related COM interfaces.

Tips

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An Easy Way to Make an MFC DLL
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++GGL - 07/10/2008
Sometimes, you can't avoid writing your own DLL. This explanation takes some of the mystery out of the process.

TBarCodeDLL—Board the Barcode Bandwagon
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Victor Volkman - 09/11/2006
Reap great benefits from barcode integration. The TBarCode DLL component is a barcoding solution you can use to print reports or stickers that will verify inventory when scanned.

[Updated] Multi Platform Plugin Development Made Easy!
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Andreas Loeffler - 05/26/2004
Learn how to develop and use multi platform plugins easily using the Simple Plugin Layer (SPL) Library.

Tip: Detecting a HMODULE/HINSTANCE Handle Within the Module You're Running In
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Kyselgov E.N. - 07/21/2003
You may have faced the challenge of detecting a HMODULE/HINSTANCE handle within a DLL module you're running.