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From: jerry@jvdsys.nextjk.stuyts.nl (Jerry van Dijk)
Subject: Re: Ada callable from Visual Basic?
Date: 1997/10/21
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In article <62calr$hsk$1@tsunami.traveller.com> dksmith@traveller.com writes:

>To look at the problem from a different perspective, how sure am
>I that Aonix's GUI builder will be alive 12 months from now? Not
>very.

As this GUI builder was already present in the Ada83 compiler...

> Visual Basic's?  Pretty sure.

Yes, but will the next version still work with your current code ?

>Oops, sorry.  Let me step down from my stump, and meekly ask my
>original question again:  How do I call Ada code from a Visual Basic
>GUI?

The easiest way (and a very good one at that) is to compile the Ada
code into a DLL.

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