Install of DLL; needed?

[Danil]

Dear all/Kelly,

Thanks for the effort creating this. I program for years now in VB.Net and a step back to VB6 is difficult! I did program it for years, but I miss the libs under VB.Net.

One question; (cant remember this any more)...

> does this VBcorlib really have to be installed in the windows dir and registered?

Can't the DLL (with the nlp) file be placed with the project and do a `Private Declare` import? (the API way) or so?

Regards, Daniël

[Kelly Ethridge]

Hello Danil,

To simply answer your question, no. The library is a standard COM library that requires it to be registered and accessed through COM mechanism (ie. Project->References). The NLP file can be placed where ever the DLL is, or more appropriately in the Windows directory.

Only libraries that expose standard windows functions can be accessed using the Declare statement. VB6 does not support creating those kind of libraries (there are 3rd party tools that will allow it, however).

I hope this answers your question,
Kelly

[Danil]

Thanks Kelly!! This all I needed to know!

Regards, Daniel (with an " on the e)