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How to make a dllexp file?

Author
22 Oct 2005 12:56 AM
Edward King
I want to make a dll file,such as "test.dllexp",I want to use dllexp file to
connect Oracle database and extract data from it. I am a new program with
VB,I don't know how to make a dllexp file, could somebody give some simple
examples and detail steps to do it with VB?

Thanks in advance!

Best Regards,
Edward

Author
22 Oct 2005 1:22 AM
MikeD
"Edward King" <zhan***@neusoft.com> wrote in message
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>I want to make a dll file,such as "test.dllexp",I want to use dllexp file
>to
> connect Oracle database and extract data from it. I am a new program with
> VB,I don't know how to make a dllexp file, could somebody give some simple
> examples and detail steps to do it with VB?


I don't even know what a "dllexp" file is.

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Mike
Microsoft MVP Visual Basic
Author
22 Oct 2005 4:22 AM
Ralph
"Edward King" <zhan***@neusoft.com> wrote in message
news:e44ytNq1FHA.3300@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
> I want to make a dll file,such as "test.dllexp",I want to use dllexp file
to
> connect Oracle database and extract data from it. I am a new program with
> VB,I don't know how to make a dllexp file, could somebody give some simple
> examples and detail steps to do it with VB?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Best Regards,
> Edward
>

If you're talking about using VB to create an ' external' Dll or 'shared
library', then the short answer is you can't. VB can only create ActiveX
Dlls.

I understand there are ways to 'wrap' vb in a regular Dll. But there not for
a beginner.

But you don't need to create this type of Dll to connect to and use an
Oracle database from VB. You can do it directly using a Data Access library
(DAO, ADO, OO4O, ...).  If you have the Oracle Client Software.

-ralph