Hey, I have compiled my .NET application as a web deployment project and gathered a bunch of DLLs containing the code behind etc. I was wondering what is the most popular way to protect these DLL's ? Licensing came up a few times during my searches, can anyone shed more light on this ? Or any other ideas would be welcome thanks ...
I need to get the version info of a dll I created in VS2008 C++. How do I get it? Thanks, Adam ...
We have a (pure native C++) .DLL that is build by VS. As clients we have some native C++ applications and a .Net-Wrapper around this DLL written in C++/CLI. Finally there are some client applications for the .Net-Wrapper written in C#. My problem is that the native.dll must be distributed in a different way than the .Net world works and...
I need to build a C++ library to distribute among our customers. The library must be able to be accessed from a wide range of languages including VB6, C++, VB.net and C#. I've being using ActiveX controls (ocx files) until now. But I wonder if there is a better kind of library (dll, etc.) that I can build. What do you recommend? I'm li...
For my current project I want to be able to load some classes from a dll (which is not always the same, and may not even exist when my app is compiled). There may also be several alternative dll's for a given class (eg an implementation for Direct3D9 and one for OpenGL), but only one of the dlls will be loaded/used at any one time. I ha...
Hi guys, On Delphi 2009, on a new VCL project: procedure TForm1.FormCreate(Sender: TObject); var Handle: THandle; begin Handle := loadlibrary('oci.dll'); if Handle <> 0 then begin try ShowMessage('Success'); finally FreeLibrary(Handle); end; end else ShowMess...
I've been searching for a way to get all the strings that map to function names in a dll. I mean by this all the strings for which you can call GetProcAddress. If you do a hex dump of a dll the symbols (strings) are there but I figure there must me a system call to acquire those names. ...
I have a C++/MFC app on windows - dynamically linked it's only 60kb static it's > 3Mb. It is a being distributed to customers by email and so needs to be as small as possible. It statically links the MFC and MSCVRT libraries - because it is a fix to some problems and I don't want more support calls about missing libs - especially the...
Hi I have a SharePoint WebPart project in visual studio. As part of the project I am referencing the interop.ActiveDS.dll. I can compile the project successfully and add/deploy the solution to SharePoint. When I try to run the WebPart in SharePoint I get the error: That assembly does not allow partially trusted callers. [SecurityExce...
I'm using boost for several C++ projects. I recently made a upgrade (1.33.1 to 1.36, soon to 1.37), since then I cannot run any debug-builds anymore. To be sure that no other project issues remain, I've created a minimum test-project, which only includes boost.thread, and uses it to start one method. The release build can be started, ...
Is there some way to make c++ dlls built with diffrent compilers compatible with each other? The classes can have factory methods for creation and destruction, so each compiler can use its own new/delete (since diffrent runtimes have there own heaps). I tried the following code but it crashed on the first member method: interface.h #p...
I have a pretty good grasp on how a "traditional" .dll works, the differences between dynamic and static loading, etc. However, I'm confused about how COM objects work: it is mandatory to register it (with regsvr32)? can I have two versions of a registered COM object lying in the same/different directory? besides beying packaged insid...
Assuming self-registration is used to install components as part of a larger installer program, why is self-registration bad? E.g. self-registering vb custom controls or capicom or whatever. I acknowledge that self-registration is probably not as safe in the case of a dll you wrote yourself, but I'm not discussing those. The MSDN lists...
I have a application and several plugins in DLL files. The plugins use symbols from the application via a export library. The application links in several static libraries and this is where most of the symbols come from. This works fine as long as the application uses a symbol. If the symbol is not used there, I get linker errors when co...
I'm trying to create a DLL using a Dataset.XSD file to access my website's VistaDB database. The DLL develops and builds fine but I need to build the DLL once and then change the "path" of the database in the all the Website projects that finally references the dll (different databases and therefor database paths for each website that r...
How can I get the list of all DLL dependencies of a given DLL or EXE file? In other words, I'd like to do the same as the "Dependency walker" tool, but programmatically. What is the Windows (ideally .NET) API for that? ...
The problem I have a word template which uses VBA's Declare statement to link to a dll, whose path can be determined within the VBA macro I want to delploy this to the users %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Word\STARTUP directory I DON'T want to permanently change the user's PATH environment variable (temporarily would be OK, but this doesn't seem ...
Hi, My question is not exactly the same as this one (it's not theoretical, there is only a main thread without message loop, InitInstance and ExitInstance are no fitting calls). I'm using a console app without message loop; this app loads an exe with the LoadLibrary function, so that it can use its exported functions. Bad news: the Dll...
The responses I've got to this question have solved the problem I had in that question, but I'm wondering whether it's possible to extend it a bit. For example, if I were to have third parties contributing commands to this system, would there be a way of extending the first answer to my previous question to allow it to load all the comma...
I'm currently working on a project which will support multiple file writing specifications (imagine if you had to support something like XML 1.0, XML 2.0, XML 3.0, etc) called ADIF. Currently there are two standards (version 1.0 and version 2.2.2), and they are both used commercially and both still heavily used. Specification version 2....