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From: "David Botton" <David@Botton.com>
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Subject: Re: gnat ada  DLL and VB
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 10:50:32 -0400
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Date: 2001-08-13T10:50:32-04:00

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" <isaac.buchwald@velenje.cx>


> 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.