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    Hi Folks,

    If I wanna use a certine DLL file, how do I know which command should I use?

    I know how to use API functions. But what I wanna do is to use a DLL of WinZip, but I don't know which commands are inside the DLL file...

    Please help,
    Nahum.

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    Talking Dependency Walker

    you can try with Dependency Walker, when you have Visual Studio installed, its in the Tools map.

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    Thanks, but how do I know how to declare the function?

    Hi,
    How do I know how to declare the function?


    Thanks!

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    Cool ApiLoad

    Can use ApiLoad. start apiload(also in the tools), load the file Win32Api.txt and search for your function, click add, and there it is.

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    Unhappy But the API Text Viewer is for Text Files only

    Its for text files only,
    so I can't view the functions inside a DLL file.



    I really need to know how to do this..

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    The dll that I use is not encluded in the Win32 API..

    The dll that i use is the WinZip32's DLL and it is not included in the Win32 API..

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    Exclamation don't know

    thats because its a dll wich is not known by VB. I don't now how to declare them then

    sorry,

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    Try doing a search on AV for ZLibDLL.
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    After you have the WinZip dll file referenced in your project (or wherever), just hit F2 and bring up the object browser. Find the dll in the libraries combo box and it should bring up all your methods and such.

    I was not able to reference the winzip.dlls but if you have a .dll available and referenced, then cool.

    I don't know of any other way to display the methods/properties of a .dll
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    You can't do this with a normal DLL. You must know the exact parameter list to pass to the DLL. And somehow I doubt NM will tell you how the WZ dll works...

    I suggested the other because it's royalty-free, legal, and has documentation .
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