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

[dekelc]

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

[RhinoBull]

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.

[Joacim Andersson]

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.

[dekelc]

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