Loading Win32/64 DLLs "manually" without LoadLibrary()

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How to load DLLs by allocating memory and loading the DLL from file/memory and then relocating/importing.
LoadDLL.zip
- LoadDLL
  - LoadDLL.sln
  - LoadDLL
  - TestDLL
  - TestDLL_CPP
loaddll-noexe.zip
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