From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,b7e4340100880cc9 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-08-13 17:45:40 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newshub2.home.com!news.home.com!news1.rdc1.va.home.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "R. Srinivasan" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <9Src7.1578$bl.79685@news.siol.net> Subject: Re: gnat ada DLL and VB X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Message-ID: <7i_d7.276991$qc.33250428@news1.rdc1.va.home.com> Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 00:29:55 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.23.183.230 X-Complaints-To: abuse@home.net X-Trace: news1.rdc1.va.home.com 997748995 24.23.183.230 (Mon, 13 Aug 2001 17:29:55 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 17:29:55 PDT Organization: Excite@Home - The Leader in Broadband http://home.com/faster Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:11880 Date: 2001-08-14T00:29:55+00:00 List-Id: Many of us -- well speaking for myself, COM/DCOM/DCOM+ etc. etc. are not the easiest to understand. These are comprehensive technologies that addresses a broad range of issues. Even with supposedly "friendly" environments (to each other I mean) like VC++ and VB, both the development, troubleshooting is quite challenging to put it mildly -- particularly when it comes to interoperation between VB/VC++. Afterall one of the central theme of VS.NET namely the "much touted" CLR is a testament to the issues involved. "David Botton" wrote in message news:mailman.997714164.3020.comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org... > Why would any one write a DLL on windows to work with VB or for that matter > with any language? Particularly when there are excellent COM/DCOM tools that > make creating COM objects with Ada 95 easier then perhaps even VB itself :-) > > Step 1 - Write IDL and compile with MIDL to a TypeLibrary (or use a GUI type > library creation tool) > Step 2 - Run CreateCOM on TLB file > Step 3 - Fill in the blanks :-) > > DONE > > DLL's these days are only being developed for use with inferior languages > like C/C++ where the average programmer is too lazy to write/use COM/DCOM > objects since their tools and/or skills are not as well developed on the > Windows platform. > > http://www.adapower.com/gnatcom > > David Botton > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "isaac buchwald" > > > > Does anybody tryed to build a simple dll in gnat ada (v 3.13p) > that > > was > > able to reference it in a visual basic (v 6.0) project - and it was > > working? > > > > If there is such a mighty ada programmer , please share your demo > > code > > with the community. > >