Questions tagged [dll]
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Porting a 32-bit Win32 DLL driver to 64-bit when a 64-bit DLL is unavailable in C++
I have a legacy 32-bit Win32 DLL driver that interfaces with a test equipment. I possess the API header file for this driver, and I dynamically load the DLL at runtime within my C++ test application ...
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Would we need Docker if applications were better behaved?
A well-written program will be configurable. It will have a configuration file or database which specifies where to look for files, which network ports to open etc. An Operating System lets many ...
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How do I find out all modifications made by installing software? [closed]
So I want to find out how to get a list of all modifications made by installing a piece of software. For example. If I install Word, I want to see all directories created, classes registered, dlls, ...
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Should a solution containing projects exposed as nuget reference them as package?
Scaling down for the sake of the example, my project is structured like this: solution X project A project B Project A is exposed as nuget packages externally, project B need the ...
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Distributing library which internally using COM library
I would like to create a dll library that will be loading in runtime. The library'll be using internally COM objects with MTA flag. The library will be created in main thread. So I have question: ...
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How can I make dll that can be called from several programing languages?
As of right now I am building authentication library for let's say programing site(It needs to be included in the program). The problem is that there several languages are used and I want to make ...
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Multiple DLLs vs Multiple EXE's in a project that needs to be modular (web browsing automation)
First of all, C# solutions are needed. So in my team I am responsible for creating a program that will receive a "task" in json format from an API, from this json it needs to figure out what website ...
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Securing cross DLL references within an Application
I am developing a. NET application. One of my DLLs manages all the security (data encryption, license management, etc). I was wondering if someone could somehow substitute this DLL file with one of ...
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Is it a good idea to make common Electron libraries available globally on Windows? [closed]
I build and run many Electron apps on Windows. I noticed that all of them have the same common api files / libraries to run. They all take about 30mb of space. I'm thinking of installing these files ...
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Implementing new project to communicate with old ones. The correct way
I'm not sure if this is the right place to post this (I'm fairly new, but Stackoverflow and Superuser suggested this site for my question), but here goes. I currently have the following: A frontend - ...
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What are the dangers/downside of unit tested dynamic library(DLL) being different from released library?
This is similar to: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1278831/unit-tests-in-production-release-code# but more specific. At the moment the DLL I ship and the DLL I use for unit testing have ...
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How to hide the dependencies of a dll from the code calling it?
I have a class library that calls dll_A. dll_A has dependencies on WPF. How to I wrap or isolate my class library so that the code calling my library does not need to have a dependency on WPF? (...
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Organizing code to minimize repetition and external references
I am struggling with how to organize external references in a C# program in order to minimize code repetition. I have application "A1" for which I want to use Microsoft's Unity IoC/Dependency ...
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Extracting data from third party program i.e. craft an unofficial API
If got a native application which adds value by for instance analyzing measurement data from measurement programs. Some of them have an API, so I can get their data via IPC. But how can I achieve this ...
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Choosing between Web API and DLL reference
I am confused between choosing Web API or DLL reference for a project I am working on and want to understand recommendations for both the approach. We are having a Web API which exposes an interface ...
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