DLL + resources

What would be the implications, if any, that would occur as a
result of creating a DLL solely for the purpose of storing a very
large string table (200+ entries) that a program would link
to in order to retrieve these strings. I understand that the
static nature of the string table would increase the size of the
DLL's working set but would this have a significant impact on
the performance of the application if you were not constantly
reading these values?

thx for any help

That's called localization dlls and is done all the time.
No negative impact, except that you must use LoadLibrary to obtain a module handle that you can later use to load resources.
pro: every instance of your app can use the same string storage, you can create international versions simply by replacing the dll (no compiling/linking of the main app required)

I'm trying to get this to work and something is not right.

What am i doing wrong?

in my DLL...

Code:

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CString MYLIB_DLLAPI CTestDLL::Message()
{
    CString strTemp;

    strTemp.LoadString(IDS_STRING1);

    return strTemp;
}

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and in my test prog...

Code:

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CTestDLL test;

CString strTemp = test.Message();
AfxMessageBox(strTemp);

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should i be doing something else?

nm

AFX_MANAGE_STATE( AfxGetStaticModuleState() );

solves the problem