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Program modules separated in different DLLs
We have an existing ERP system written in VB 6 that we are converting to .Net incrementally. Now, every module in the system is being separated into DLLs so that the product becomes customizable and ...
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Managing DLL files, deployment, and ease of use for the end user
I've been thinking recently about being an end-user who wishes to download one of my own projects and use it on a perfectly average machine. Having an equal background in Unix as well as Windows, I ...
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Communication between a C# application and C++ DLL
I am currently building an audio streamer and I have a CPP .dll that I use functions of inside the WPF C# GUI.
The program needs to deal with sorts of events such as
Lower/Increase Volume
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Memory concerns while plotting escape from DLL Hell in Delphi [closed]
I work on a program with about 50 DLLs that are loaded from one executable, it's an old organically grown program where the only rationale for creating a new DLL is that one previously didn't exist to ...
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Restrictions Calling DLLs Across Technologies?
I want to call a DLL in my programming language of 'choice'. The documentation surrounding this clearly states that it must be a 32-bit DLL written in C, C++ or Delphi. But I wanted to call a DLL ...
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LGPL, .lib, .dll, and linking
I am trying to build a project which uses an unmodified copy of libconfig (http://www.hyperrealm.com/libconfig/). libconfig is LGPL, but I don't want to open source any of my code. By my ...
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should I be putting database connections into a class library?
This might be a stupid question but I've never created a class library before
The reason I don't want to be connecting to a database through the class library is error handling.. should I just leave ...
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What are some books that explain low level stuff like com interfaces, dll injection etc? [closed]
What are some books that explain low level stuff like com interfaces, dll injection etc? Basically low level windows programming. Searching on amazon gives me hacking books/10+ year old books which is ...
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GPLv2 - Multiple AI chess engines to bypass GPL
I have gone through a number of GPL-related questions, the most recent being this one:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3248823/legal-question-about-the-gpl-license-net-dlls/3249001#3249001
I'm ...
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How to update dependency during runtime in my .NET application?
I have a server-client application. Sometimes the server is updated which requires some DLLs in the client to be updated as well (The DLLs are the dependencies of the main executable). For now, we ...
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C++ Library API Design
I'm looking for a good resource for learning about good API design for C++ libraries, looking at shared objects/dlls etc. There are many resources on writing nice APIs, nice classes, templates and so ...
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What should developers know about Windows executable binary file compression?
I'd never heard of this before, so shame on me, but programs like UPX can compress my files by 80% which is totally sweet, but I have no idea what the the disadvantages are in doing this. Or even ...
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GPL: terms of license
I'd like to use the VLC's DLL in one of my programs.
VLC is under the GPL license.
Do I have to redistribute all the sources under GPL or can I redistribute only the modified sources of VLC under ...
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Build a native dll or .net dll to be used independently in either set-up
Here's a simple question (kind of), but I'm having a hard time taking a decision. First, a history on how I came to have this problem. In my new job, we need to use a third party API to communicate ...
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C++ : Lack of Standardization at the Binary Level
Why ISO/ANSI didn't standardize C++ at the binary level? There are many portability issues with C++, which is only because of lack of it's standardization at the binary level.
Don Box writes, ...
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Computation Program Not Running at 100% CPU Utilization
I have a program which has a GUI and performs some very heavy mathematical computations for a couple of minutes and then outputs a result. When I try to directly interface it through its DLL's, it ...
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Is it possible for two DLLs to conflict , preventing solution to build
Though I have a specific case, but I was wondering about the general situation.
Can two DLLs, when added as Reference to a Visual C# project collide with each other to prevent the solution from ...
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What tool do I use to examine a dll's methods?
I am trying to identify differences between two different versions of Citrix, between Metaframe and XenApp. Problem is, because they are intended to solve the same problem, they both have interfaces ...
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DLL Hierarchy issues
I want to preface this by saying "I love my job and I want to stay here"
But I've got a serious problem,
Circularly linked DLL's (DLL's linked back to the EXE)
Special builds with conditional ...
