RE: Win API Wrapper: How to write them?

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From: John Eikanger [MSFT] (johnei_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 05/07/04 

Date: Fri, 07 May 2004 23:30:00 GMT

Hi, Chris

It looks like the folks here have you on the right track

Here is a link to a document that may prove useful to you:

http://www.mvps.org/vb/index2.html?tips/vb5dll.htm

Another useful tool is the dependency walker, a free download from
www.dependencywalker.com. Load the compiled DLL from it and it will
display the entry points. Depending on the calling conventions, the DLL
entry points may be easily usable or "decorated" (munged).

Hope this helps,

John Eikanger
Microsoft Developer Support

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| From: "Chris Wagner" <so@hotmail.com>
| Subject: Win API Wrapper: How to write them?
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| I have about 5 to 10 API from a vendor and they don't supply VB warpper
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| it. How hard is it to write a wrapper for VB. Is there a sample code just
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| write one simple API? Thanks.
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