DLL

Sometimes, you can't avoid writing your own DLL. This explanation takes some of the mystery out of the process.

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.

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.

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.

Multilingual Library adds multiple UI languages' support to your MFC application.

Learn to intercept WinAPI calls.

Learn how to hook a DirectX/COM Interface. The DirectInput interface was used as an example of how to hook an interface function.

Use the IOUpdate.dll library to automatically update your application from the Internet.

Learn how to develop and use multi platform plugins easily using the Simple Plugin Layer (SPL) Library.

You may have faced the challenge of detecting a HMODULE/HINSTANCE handle within a DLL module you're running.

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.

Read from the resources of a DLL or EXE file like reading from a normal CFile.

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.

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.

Dialogs in DLL

Customize existing applications through use of custom DLLs and with "Remote Library Loading" and with a utility created here called the Remote Library Loader.

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.

A wrapper classes for dynamic DLL loading.

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.

DLL_Callback: Sample for asyncronous inner-process operations.

Update of a devpt/system management tool to find which process is locking a DLL.

Enables you to hook third-party DLL functions

Code to perform one standard method (DLL Injection) of API Hooking, or Interception

Class for self extracting binary resources