DWUTKA at marlow.com
DWUTKA at marlow.com
Tue Sep 14 08:56:23 CDT 2004
True for most .dll's. I have had problems with mm.dll, the multimedia .dll. Some software developers think they can tweak that one better, and I've had .avi playing code that just fails on certain machines. Go figure. Other then that, you're right, .dll's are rock solid for APIs. Drew -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of Stuart McLachlan Sent: Monday, September 13, 2004 5:45 PM To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving Subject: RE: [AccessD] MS Access to VB6 or VB.net On 13 Sep 2004 at 17:17, Scott Marcus wrote: > Drew, > > Are you saying that .Net uses wrappers? > > The problem with API's is dll hell. There's no DLL hell with the API. The Win32 API uses system DLLS which are backward compatible between Windows versions. The majority of API calls work for every version of WIndows from W95 on including all of the most commonly used APIs. If you want to use an API feature that is limited to certain OS versions, you just need to check the OSVersion first. -- Stuart -- _______________________________________________ AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com