Hi,

I just did a search and looked through the 166 messages on this board with 'dll' in the subject, but it brought me no closer to answering my question, 'What the hell is a dll?'.

I saw lots of stuff like 'Use CreateObject, ActiveX dlls, class references, C programming....', but what actually IS the purpose of a dll.

For instance, I'm making 6 different packages with VB - they're all pretty much the same, and they use the exact same ActiveX controls (about 10 of them). Would packaging all the controls in a dll (if that's the purpose of dlls) make my programmes run faster, and easier to maintain when I add updates and things like that?

Gracias.