dll? api?

[saharon]

how can learn more about using DLLs and API
I want to know more on VB programing
thanks

[PhilipG]

What kinda DLL's do you want to know about? You can create "Active-X" dll's using Visual Basic, but this probably isn't what your wanting.

APIs are great for doing things not easily done in the VB IDE. They typically use functions provided from a C++ written Dll. If your serious about it, I recommend Dan Appleman's book "Visual Basic Programmer's Guide to the Win32 API".

Otherwise, check this webpage for many programs based on API's as well as just about every other major VB page.



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HTH,
Philip
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[Lemp]

I highly recommend the Dan Appleman book suggested by Philip.

[Paul282]

I've got the Dan Appleman book too. It's good but its not a light read and it does not ease you into API programming.

The only way to learn is to use it, I know that sounds like a catch 22 but give yourself a small project just to see how it works, eg reading and writing INI files is a good start. once you know how it works you can dive into a reference book like Dans. Don't just get the book and expect to hit the API ground running,

DLLs follow on from there, API calls to the windows DLLs are basically the same just better documented than other dlls.

I had probelms even with the help files at first and copying other peoples code for always-on-top and systray didn't teach me much at the time. Ini files, then basic graphics funtions (like drawing a line or polygon on a form) or maybe registry read/write -you'll need to know these eventually anyway

[This message has been edited by Paul282 (edited 02-03-2000).]

[This message has been edited by Paul282 (edited 02-03-2000).]