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I have several resuable functions and subroutines that i want to encapsulate into a dll. The problem is, I don't know how. What i'm doing today is that I put them in several standard modules and add that modules to my project.
I know that this is a very simple question but believe me, I really don't know how to do it.
I tried to put all of them into a ActiveX dll project but I don't have a class in it and so VB did not allow me to create the project.
Hi,
Start up VB and select ActiveX DLL as your project. Then copy your code from your modules(.bas) and paste it into a class module in your new project. (You can add more class modules to the project by right-clicking in the project explorer and going Add>Class Module).
You can then compile this into a DLL and reference it in the normal way to use it's methods,propereties and events.
Hope this helps
Shaun
When you are realy smart you take a look at http://www.vbsquare.com and look for the articels named "Beginning object in VB". I used them and I have now created my first DLL used for multiple functions my collegue wanted to use. It had to be a DLL becouse he only wants to program in VBA and VB.
I wish you good luck. I know you can do it. After all I could.
Thanks! I started doing the advice of S@NSIS. It works but since its a class, i have to create an instance of the class and then expose the objects methods, properties, etc.. Now, I want to use the methods in my library as if i'm calling a VB function. Just like this:
msgbox "Hello" 'vb function
messagebox "Hello" ' a function called from my library
I'm now checking out vbsquare's beginning objects series. Thanks guys!
Try this:
create a DLL project with a class in it
set the class Instancing property to GlobalMultiUse or GlobalSingleUse (if you do a Help on the Instancing property you'll find which one is better, I can't remember off the top of my head and I'm too lazy to open VB)
make all your functions, variables, Types, etc members of the class