why can't I add these dlls to my vb app?

hello,

I use win xp so I added two dlls to the system32 folder and tried to add
them to my project, but got the following message: "can't add a reference
to the specified file"
the dlls are zipping and unzipping dlls from the following address:

http://www.vbaccelerator.com/home/VB...es/article.asp

I also tried renaming the dlls but there was no success...

what should I do?

thanks

:wave:

Either dll doesn't need to be registered nor it needs to be referenced directly - just copy it into your application folder or (if that doesn't work) into Windows System directory. Note that you will have manually add each dll to you distribution package.

If it's the VBUZIP10.DLL and VBZIP10.DLL files then those are just renamed InfoZip files that are pure C-style DLLs and not COM objects. Download the other files from here:
http://www.vbaccelerator.com/home/VB...sion/index.asp
Those show how to use the libraries.

ok, still can't get it to work...
anyone knows of other free dlls for zipping and unzipping?

:wave: