Have I gone mad?

[sjn78]

I am pretty sure that I added a DLL as a reference to a project once and I could user the DLL and get to its functions. I have VB.Net Standard 2002 if that is any help.

 

I'm pretty sure I added User32.dll to it and then I could do something like this,

 

Start typing User32. and then the intellisense would kick in giving me a list of functions.

 

Should this happen or I might be thinking of something I did in another language.

[DR00ME]

I think it should work like that, could you tell me how you did it ? Is it 'Add reference' then browse and select user32.dll ?

 

usually I use API functions like this:

 

Private Declare Function DestroyWindow Lib "user32" (ByVal hndw As Integer) As Boolean

 

 

first declare then use it.... I have never tried anything else so no help I guess.

Edited February 23, 2004 by DR00ME

[sjn78]

I tried adding it like you first stated, but you get the error its not a valid dll or something.

 

But I thought I did add it as a reference at some stage and it worked.

 

Must of been dreaming!

[mutant]

You can't reference standard DLLs like that. You have to import the functions like stated above or using the DllImport attribute.

[samsmithnz]

This only works with ActiveX Dll's (or the newer .NET ones of course). You're probably jsut confused with these older ones...

[sjn78]

Yeh, I'd say that's what I was thinking.