I had a general question, I'm wondering if I were to create a dll in another language (such as c/c++ for example, as those are what I'm familiar with) that ran an infinite loop and call it from a vb.net program how would I go about ending that infinite loop. To clarify, I would press a button on my vb program that would run this c dll, and in the c dll a function would be called that ran off of an infinite loop, while(1) let's say, my question is how would the vb program stop the c program?
Overall, and most significantly, my question is can I make a button/code in vb that will open and close a dll when it is pressed--rather than having the dll stay in use?
Edit: Also, if there are any resources on how to do this, tutorials, walkthroughs, etc. I would highly appreciate a link to them. I've found some stuff, but it's a bit cryptic to read through and in many cases not helpful.
Relevant info: OS: Windows 7 (64 bit), programming in code::blocks with mingw compiler for c/c++, and vb.net in visual studio 2008
To further elaborate on my question, what I want is a c program to indefinitely read from a file (the file is constantly filling) and a vb program to start and stop the process. Also, the data is supposed to be sent by an array from the c dll to the vb application so that the vb application can store and use the data as well.
Tags: C++, C, Visual Basic, Windows, COM, DLL, Interop
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