Creating and consuming MFC DLLs for Beginners

Imran Ebrahim

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The objective of this tutorial is to demonstrate in a step by step manner how to build and call methods present in a DLL using Visual C++ 6.0. We are going to develop a DLL that takes in a string as input parameter and returns the string prefixed with a "Hello".

dll_src.zip
- DLL_Src
  - MyDll
    - MyClass.cpp
    - MyClass.h
  - TestDLL
    - TestDLLDlg.cpp
    - TestDLLDlg.h
dll_prj.zip
- DLL_Prj
  - MyDll
    - MyClass.cpp
    - MyClass.h
    - MyDll.aps
    - MyDll.clw
    - MyDll.cpp
    - MyDll.def
    - MyDll.dsp
    - MyDll.dsw
    - MyDll.h
    - MyDll.plg
    - MyDll.rc
    - ReadMe.txt
    - res
      - MyDll.rc2
    - Resource.h
    - StdAfx.cpp
    - StdAfx.h
  - TestDLL
    - ReadMe.txt
    - res
      - TestDLL.ico
      - TestDLL.rc2
    - resource.h
    - StdAfx.cpp
    - StdAfx.h
    - TestDLL.aps
    - TestDLL.clw
    - TestDLL.cpp
    - TestDLL.dsp
    - TestDLL.dsw
    - TestDLL.h
    - TestDLL.plg
    - TestDLL.rc
    - TestDLLDlg.cpp
    - TestDLLDlg.h

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Imran Ebrahim

Product Manager

India

Imran is a software professional with 9 years of development experience and has worked on JAVA, VB6, VC6, C# & some JavaScript.

He is interested in Hi-Performance code, OO Methodology, OS API's, Optimizing Windows, Tweaking IE.

For the last few years Imran has specialized in developing robust, hi-performance applications & GUI's (Swing) for MNC's.

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